Many think that some bacteria may have been the first to orbit the Earth.
I believe it was a dog although it may have been a chimp
Lakia, a dog abord the Sputnik 2, from Soviet Russia.
Laika, the Russian space dog, was the first terrestrial creature to orbit the earthAnswerLaika was the first terrestrial creature, a Russian space dog,to orbit the earth Laica is a German company that produces camerasi dont know you tell me!
The dog's name was Laika. Thanks to the USSR's space program, she was the first creature to ever orbit Earth. Unfortunately, she was also the first creature to die in space.
The first satellite was called Sputnik. The first spaceship to carry a large living organism was called Sputnik II, or "Muttnik" since the creature on board was a small dog named Laika. The Russian Vostok space craft carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into earth's orbit. The first American to reach space, Alan Shephard, flew aboard the Mercury capsule on a Redstone rocket named "Freedom 7." He did not, however, orbit the earth.
Laika Poor dog.
The dog's name was Laika. Thanks to the USSR's space program, she was the first creature to ever orbit Earth. Unfortunately, she was also the first creature to die in space.
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth.
The soviet dog Lakia was the first living creature to orbit the earth. Is not quite true anymore, Laika now fifty years later, we receive the information that Lakia died on take of so she didn't orbit earth!
The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
The Soviets, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin, who was not only the first Russian but the first human to orbit the earth.