It was fruit flies.
chimpanzee
it was a Chimpanzee
The first US space animal was a rhesus monkey, Albert II, on June 14, 1949. Later tests in 1950 used mice.
The United States sent a rhesus monkey named Albert I to space in 1948, as part of a mission by the U.S. military.
The US sent a chimpanzee named Ham into space in 1961. Ham's mission was part of a series of tests to prepare for human spaceflight.
In the 1940s the US sent fruit flies into space
Russia was the first in space where they went around the earth a few times but USA was the first on the moon. The first to send three into space though, was the USA.
Monkey
The first animal sent to Outer space was a dog named Laika.
US didn't send Laika into space, the Soviets AKA the Russians AKA USSR did.
Alan Shepard Jr.
No. The USSR was the first to launch any kind of space craft with the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957. The US was the first to send a man to the moon in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission