The height of manned space flights…
>gemini XI (1966) 1,374 km
>polaris dawn (2024) 1,400 km
Meanwhile Laika, the first animal to orbit the Earth, still holds the record for the highest altitude reached by a mammal, and she didn’t live for long since she sent right into the radiation that wasn’t known at that time
>sputnik 2 (laika) (1958) 1,659 km