What is the first space shuttle sent into orbit?

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.

Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.

Space Shuttle Discovery.

None yet. We have not sent one out of low earth orbit even.

The first module, Zarya, was sent into orbit on the 20th November 1998

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.

The USSR's Sputnik was the first artificial satellite.

The space shuttle Discovery has flown the most times of all the space shuttle orbiters.

Laika was a Soviet space dog that became the first animal to orbit the Earth - as well as the first animal to die in orbit.

The last Space Shuttle to go into space and to the Space Station was Endeavour

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

Atlantis was launched November 16, 2009 and landed November 27, 2009

A space probe is an unmanned device that is sent into space for purposes of exploration. The space shuttle is a manned vehicle meant for research and delivering supplies, equipment, and people into low-Earth orbit.

Nasa needed more orbiters. This was the second shuttle built and was the first that was used for testing then converted to space flight. It was send into space for the same purpose as Challenger before it and the ones after it.

There was no space shuttle that landed on mars but there were unmanned rockets that went to mars that sent probes

Laika the dog was sent into orbit in 1957.

Columbia was on its 28th mission when it disintegrated during re-entry in 2003. Its first mission was the first by a space shuttle into space.

India has no space shuttles.

Russia sent a dog called Laika into space on 3 November 1957 (which was the first ever satellite, which first flew on October 4 1957).

Generally, a satellite orbits the Earth, while a space probe is sent to gather information beyond Earth orbit. However, probe can orbit the Earth (and therefore technically be a satellite) or go into orbit around another body (the Moon, Mars, etc.) and therefore also technically become a satellite of that body.

In 1957, the USSR sent a dog named Laika into orbit.

sputnik, by the russians, which in turn led to the space race!

Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to venture to the edge of the solar system. Hope I could help! :) :)

The first human to go into orbit was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaught.