Columbia was the first shuttle in to orbit on April 13, 1981
Canada has never sent a Space Shuttle into space.
Columbia was the first space shuttle sent into space on April 12, 1981, exactly 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
Columbia
Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.
None yet. We have not sent one out of low earth orbit even.
The first manned space shuttle mission occurred on the 12th of April 1981. However it was the space shuttle Columbia, not the Saturn V rocket. The Saturn V rocket was first used for a manned mission on December the 21st 1968. Two very different space vehicles. The Saturn V rocket was used to send man to the Moon, where as the space shuttle is used to sent humans into Earth orbit.
Space Shuttle Discovery.
The first module, Zarya, was sent into orbit on the 20th November 1998
The USSR's Sputnik was the first artificial satellite.
The space shuttle Discovery has flown the most times of all the space shuttle orbiters.
Atlantis was launched November 16, 2009 and landed November 27, 2009
Laika was a soviet space dog that become the first animal to orbit the earth , as well as the first animal to die in orbit