the second animal was Laika the dog, the first one was a banana fly
The largest animal that has been to space is a human, with the common chimpanzee coming in a close second.
The second animal in space was a Rhesus monkey on June 14, 1949, in a U.S.-launched V2.
The second in space was cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya in 1982.
An American Eagle.
The second American to fly into space was Gus Grissom. He was also the first American to make a second trip into space.
Homo Sapiens.
Monkey
Laika was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth.
Spiders. They were also the first to do their natural activities in space. (They spun webs.)
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Ronald Mcnair was the second African American to go into space.
A Russian dog, Laika was the first animal in space, in Sputnik 2 in 1957