The Soviet Union struck the first major blows in the space race with the Sputnik programme. They succeeded in sending the first earth-orbiting satellite into space (Sputnik I) in October 1957, before sending the first living being, a dog named Laika, into orbit with Sputnik II in November 1957.
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