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the first soviet who went to space in 1961 was alaxeyevich gagarin.
Spacecraft were first developed by the Soviet Union and the United States separately during the cold war "Space Race". The Russians were the first to go into space, and the Americans were the first to get to the Moon.
A Soviet dog.
Yuri Gagarin
First man and satellite in space.
Valentina Tereshkova was the first women in space. She was part of the Soviet Space Program
The Soviet Union was the first to launch a successful artificial satellite (Sputnik, 1957), the first to put a man in space (Yuri Gagarin, 1961), and the first to successfully land a spacecraft on another planet, Venus (Venera 7, 1970).
She was the first woman in space, in 1963.
Laika the dog was the first animal in space. She was sent up by the Soviet Union during the space race to see if it were possible to have a live creature in space. Unfortunetly they had no way to safely bring her home alive so she died while in space.
To show to the world that the United States could beat the Soviet Union in a contest of technology and will. The USSR had recently impressed the world with its space achievements. In the context of the Cold War, President Kennedy looked for a space spectacular that the US could achieve first, despite the current Soviet lead.
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