To see if it was possible to survive to be launched into space.
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∙ 11y agoIn Russian, the word 'Sputnik' is translated to the English word 'Satellite'.The actual name of the SATELLITE was 'Vostok' or 'Vostok 3KA'.
On the 4th of October 1957, the Soviet Union sent Sputnik into orbit. A month later the Soviets would send Laika, First living creature (a dog) in orbit around the Earth. The Americans thinking that they were years ahead of the Soviets had a nice little wake up call.
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The U.S., under the Lend-Lease Act, supplied the Soviet Union with outdated arms, tanks, trucks, and aircraft. The Soviet Union then took these supplies, stripped them of their manufacturers' logos and placed Soviet markings on them to make their men think that they were produced in the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union sent 420 athletes to the Summer Games in Helsinki and none to the Winter Games in Oslo.
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to send an artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space in 1957.
It's name: Sputnik. It's sender: The Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.).
Man first sent an onject into space in 1957. This object was the Soviet Union's satellite Sputnik 1.
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. It transmitted radio signals back to Earth, marking the beginning of the space age and the space race between the US and the Soviet Union.
The first country to send a satellite into space was the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
In Russian, the word 'Sputnik' is translated to the English word 'Satellite'.The actual name of the SATELLITE was 'Vostok' or 'Vostok 3KA'.
Russia sent its first rocket into space on October 4, 1957, with the launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite. This event marked the beginning of the space age and the start of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union, was the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. That launch took place on 4 October 1957
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The Soviet Union sent Laika, a dog, into space on November 3, 1957 aboard the spacecraft Sputnik 2. This marked the first living being to orbit Earth.
The Sovjet Union was the first state to send a man-made satellite into space. It was launched on the 4th of October, 1957 and called Sputnik-1.
Laika, the dog, was sent into space by the Soviet Union in 1957 as part of the Sputnik 2 mission. The United States sent its first animal, a chimpanzee named Ham, into space in 1961.