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Nov. 3, 1957: The Soviet Union sends the first living creature into orbit. It was a Space Race victory that would have broken Sarah McLachlanâs heart. On this day, Nov. 3, in 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first-ever living animal into orbit: a dog named Laika. The flight was meant to test the safety of space travel for humans, but it was a guaranteed suicide mission for the dog, since technology hadnât advanced as far as the return trip.
Baker, a squirrel monkey, was launched into space along with a rhesus monkey named Able. Unlike Albert II, they survived their 16-minute mission. Able, a rhesus monkey, took off along with her companion Baker, becoming the first monkeys to survive the trip into space.stronaut Alan Shepard may have been America's first man in space when he went up in 1961, but he wasn't the nation's first simian in space. That honor belongs to another Al -- Albert II, a rhesus monkey that blasted aloft in 1949 aboard a V2 rocket.