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Alan Shepard
The first country to send a woman to space was the Soviet Union (now Russia). Valentina Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first woman to travel to space in 1963.
Alan Shepard Jr.
The U.S. sent Astronaut Alan Shepard into space on May 5th, 1961. This was 23 days after the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on April 12th, 1961.
John Glenn.
valentina tereskhova,a russian.and the spacecraft is vostok 6
The first woman in space was Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut. She was on the Vostok 5 mission which launched on June 16, 1963. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride. She was on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7 in 1983.
Alan Shepard was the first American to travel into space less than a month after Russian Yuri Gagarin's historic flight. Shepard's suborbital flight on May 5, 1961, made him the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.
The first person to travel in space was Yuri Gagarin sent by Russia / the Soviet Union.
Laika a dog was the first animal in space it was sent by the soviet union
RussiaRussian (Soviet). The Russian sent a woman into space in the 1960's. The USA was planning to send a woman into space in the 1960's, but, did not do so, because President LBJ ordered NASA not to. The USA would not send a woman into space until the 1980's.
The USSR sent the first animals into space.