Ham (1957 - January 19, 1983), also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was a chimpanzee and the first hominid launched into space, on January 31, 1961, as part of America's space program. Ham's name is an acronym for the lab that prepared him for his historic mission - the Holloman Aerospace ...
They didn't send humans up into space first, as they needed to find out the effects it had on the body, so they sent a dog, and a chimp into space, to conduct research, and make sure it was possible, or feasible.
The United States of America. (The USSR had the first satellite and person, but the US go to the moon first)
the first people/ nation to send some form of satellite into space is the russians with thesputnik 1
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.
Laika
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to send an artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space in 1957.
technically it was not a race the countries just wanted to send the first person to space. unfortunately Russia won on on April 12 1961 followed by America on May 5 1961
Mercury was the name given to the first American space program.
NASA has sent various animals to space for scientific research, including fruit flies, spiders, monkeys, mice, and most famously, chimpanzees. These animals were used to study the effects of space travel on living organisms and to gather valuable data for human space exploration.
it was America
It was fruit flies.