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.
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Russia first sent a human into space on 12 April, 1961. The pilot and sole traveller Yuri Gagarin was also the first ever human in space.
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It was Russia. The mans name was Yuri Gagarin.
The USSR (Russia) was.
October 4, 1957: the Sputnik satellite
The Sovjet Union was the first state to send a man-made satellite into space. It was launched on the 4th of October, 1957 and called Sputnik-1.
Russia sent a dog. The USA sent a chimp.
Russia (at the time the Soviet Union) was the first country to send a man into space. The man was cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
You have probably heard that U.S and Russia had a race to space. Russia was the first to make it to space and orbit around the planet. The Space Race was an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could make the furthest advancements into space first. It involved the efforts to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land them on the Moon.-Wikipedia
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Just because they can....