No one was onboard Sputnik, it was an unmanned satellite.
The dog, Laika, died due to temperature increase.
The name of Laika's spacecraft was Sputnik 2. She was the first living being to orbit the Earth in this spacecraft in November 1957.
She enter space on November 3, 1957 aboard Sputnik 2
The Sputnik craft were very small, unmanned satellites. But the Sputnik 2 carried a dog called Laika into space.The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, aboard Vostok 1.
Laika the dog orbited earth aboard the soviet spacecraft Sputnik II in November 1957
Sputnik-1 was a ball with a diameter of 23 inches. It weighed 184 pounds, spent 3 months in orbit, and burned up when it re-entered the earth's atmosphere. Fortunately, there was nobody aboard it.
Laika Poor dog.
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The first living being in space was a dog named Laika, launched by the Soviet Union aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957.
Laika, the Russian dog who was launched aboard Sputnik-2 and died in orbit, was the first female to travel into space.
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Laika was born in 1954 in Russia. She was selected to be the first animal to orbit the Earth in space aboard Sputnik 2 on November 3, 1957.