However, these were suborbital flights, which meant the spacecraft passed into outer space before falling back to Earth without making an orbit. The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957.
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Dog Laika
However, these were suborbital flights, which meant the spacecraft passed into outer space before falling back to Earth without making an orbit. The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957.