a standard established in the 1951 case Dennis v. U.S. whereby the government could suppress speech to avoid grave danger, even if the probability of the dangerous result was relatively remote; replaced by the imminent Lawless action (incitement) test in 1969.
Laika became the first living being to orbit the Earth on Sputnik 2, Nov. 3, 1957. She died several hours into the flight from stress and heat. On May 28, 1959, rhesus monkey Able and squirrel monkey Baker became the first to successfully return to Earth after space flight.
Space. Animals were the first living creatures sent into space, before humans headed up there. A monkey sent into space by Iran, in the Middle East, is the latest animal to make the journey there and back.Some people think it's cruel to send animals into space-especially if they don't make the journey back.n the earlier days of space exploration, nobody knew if people could survive a trip away from Earth and make the return journey safely, so using animals was a way to find out. In 1948, America sent the first of a series of monkeys, all named Albert, into space.