What was the first living creature into outer space?? I say a dog but many people think a monkey...?

Question

space... the final frontier

Answer 1

I'm sorry but the other people are correct. Don't worry I used think the dog went out first too.

Answer 2

On November 3, 1957, the U.S.S.R. stunned the world with a space sensation -- the launch of Sputnik 2 with a live dog on-board. But many details of what happened to the mission have only recently been revealed.

The Space Age had started less than a month before, with the launch of the first Soviet satellite on October 4, 1957. Sputnik 1, a 40-pound sphere, carried a simple transmitter and was considered very heavy compared to the U.S. spacecraft under development at the time.

Enter Sputnik 2. The Soviet press boasted about the 250-pound object equipped with a cabin, providing all the necessary life support for a dog named Laika. Well, almost. The Soviets admitted soon after the launch that the spacecraft would not return, meaning that the animal was doomed from the start. Years after Sputnik 2 burned up in the atmosphere, conflicting scenarios of Laika's death were circulating in the West.

Answer 3

Laika (from Russian: Лайка, "Barker") was a Russian space dog that became the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit. She was launched into space on Sputnik 2, a Soviet spacecraft, on November 3, 1957. Like many other animals in space, she died during the mission, though earlier than expected.

She was found as a stray wandering the streets of Moscow, a mongrel female weighing approximately 6 kg (13 lb) and about 3 years old. "Laika" is in fact the Russian name for several breeds of dogs similar to the husky. Her name was changed from Kudryavka (Russian for "Little Curly"), and she was also nicknamed Zhuchka ("Little Bug") and Limonchik ("Little Lemon"). The American press dubbed her Muttnik (mutt + suffix "-nik") as a pun on Sputnik, the Russian satellite program, and some animal rights activists at the time called her Curly. Her true ancestry can never be known, although it is generally accepted that she was part husky or other Nordic breed, and possibly part terrier.

Laika died a few hours after launch from stress and overheating. The true cause of her death was not made public until decades after the flight. Previously, officials had stated that she was euthanized by poisoned food, or that she had died when her oxygen ran out. Some former Soviet scientists have since expressed regret for allowing Laika to die.[1]

Although Laika did not survive the trip, the experiment proved that a living passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure weightlessness. It paved the way for human spaceflight, and provided scientists with some of the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.

Answer 4

YOU are right. Monkies were the first animals to survive a space trip, though.

1959: Monkeys survive space mission
Two monkeys, Able and Baker, have become the first living creatures to survive a space flight.

Able and Baker were not the first animals sent into space. On 3 November 1957 the Russians sent a dog Laika, which was mostly Siberian husky, into orbit. But days into the flight the dog died.

Answer 5

Laika, a Soviet dog, was the first living creature sent into space. She rode Sputnik II on November 3, 1957, a month after the electronic satellite Sputnik.

The NASA Web site in the Sources field includes a picture of Laika and several stamps issued in her honor by various countries.

Answer 6

The first animals intentionally sent into space were fruit flies which were sent along with corn seeds aboard a U.S.-launched V2 rocket in mid July, 1946. The purpose of the experiment was to explore the effects of radiation exposure at high altitudes. Some further V2 missions carried biological samples including moss.

Albert II in a U.S. launched V2 became the first monkey in space on June 14, 1949 (after the failure of the original Albert's mission). Albert II died on impact after a parachute failure. Numerous monkeys of several species were flown by the U.S. in the 1950s and 60s. Monkeys were implanted with sensors to measure vital signs and many were under anesthesia during launch.

Answer 7

Scientists in the Soviet Union were sure that organisms from Earth could live in space. To demonstrate that, they sent the world's second artificial space satellite — Sputnik 2 — to space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on November 3, 1957.

On board was a live mongrel dog named Laika (Barker in Russian) on a life-support system. Laika also was known as Kudryavka (Little Curly in Russian). The American press nicknamed the dog Muttnik.

While other animals had made suborbital flights, Laika was the first animal to go into orbit. She suffered no ill effects while she was alive in an orbit at an altitude near 2,000 miles.

Answer 8

Hold on to your hat. The first "animals" in space were Fruit Flies. Accidentally send up with some corn seed in a V2 Rocket in 1946. The next animal, a monkey named Albert, went into space in 1949 in a V2 Rocket. Unfortunately Albert died at landing. It was a crash landing he did not survive.

Answer 9

Fruit flies in the 1940's. Then Albert II (a monkey) in 1949. Then a mouse in 1950.

Answer 10

It was a twelve year old African bull elephant. It was launched from the Cameroon Space Centre in 1957. After successfully orbiting the earth for 24 hours, it developed a computer problem (still to be invented in the US), and crash landed. This tragedy resulted in the cessation of the Cameroon space programme, whose goal was to set up a banana plantation on Mars.