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.
first they sent a chimp then they sent a dog. I'm not lying, it all happened around the 1950's
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 ...
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
USA.
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.
it was the first and greatest space company to send people into space.
The space race was a competition between space agencies (historically those of the USA and the USSR) to be the first to accomplish a particular goal: the first to send a man in orbit around the earth, or the first to send a man to the moon.