Sputnik 2 carried "Laika", a dog, the first living thing, human or otherwise, into space.
A Russian dog, Laika was the first animal in space, in Sputnik 2 in 1957
The first animal to orbit the Earth was Laika, a dog on board the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957.
Sputnik was the first successful launch.
the name of the first satellite is Sputnik
November 3th 1957, launched on Sputnik 2(not to be confused withKorabl-Sputnik 2.) Laika was the first animal in orbit also the first to die in orbit.
The first animal to go to space was a dog named Laika, launched by the Soviet Union aboard the spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957.
Sputnik was the "family name" for a series of satellites, so there never was a satellite named only Sputnik. They all had numbers with Sputnik 1 being the first.
The first sputnik didn't actually crash but rather burned as it reentered the atmosphere in January of 1958. There were actually over 40 sputnik's released into space.
The first artificial satellite in space was called the Sputnik. The Sputnik satellite was launched on the 4th of October, 1957. It belonged to the Soviet Union.
Sputnik 1 Sputnik 1
It means it was the first sputnik.
Sputnik 1, the first man made object to orbit the earth. And we've been polluting like crazy up there ever since.