No one was onboard Sputnik, it was an unmanned satellite.
Laika was sent into space aboard Sputnik 2.
The dog, Laika, died due to temperature increase.
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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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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Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 were artificial satellites that traveled around the Earth. People thought that Sputnik 1 was spying on them, but all it did was transmit a simple tracking signal for 3 weeks.
Laika, a stray dog, was sent into orbit by the Soviet Union in 1957 aboard the satellite Sputnik 2 (nicknamed "Muttnik" in the US).