It was called Sputnik.
The First spacecraft was the MESSENGER. The First spacecraft was the MESSENGER.
The first maneuverable spacecraft is considered to be the Gemini Spacecraft. This was NASA's second human spacecraft, and its mission lasted from 1965 to 1966.
Scott crossfield flew the first winged spacecraft. the spacecraft was called the x-5.
The first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon was the Apollo 8 spacecraft.
Robotic spacecraft
Galileo was the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter.
It was the Gemini spacecraft.
The first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon was the surveyor 1 spacecraft in 1966.
The first living creature that we know of to visit the moon was a human, Niel Armstrong. If you wish to be speculative, you could suggest that there COULD have been some bacteria surviving somewhere in the spacecraft, which COULD have entered the vacuum of space before Mr. Armstrong did, but obviously there is no evidence to support that belief. So the first living creature to visit the moon to our knowledge would have to be Niel Armstrong.
The mariner spacecraft explored Mercury, Mars, and Venus. The first successful space probe and first spacecraft visit to a planet was Mariner 2.
The first spacecraft to observe Venus was the Venera 3 in 1962.
the first spacecraft to explore mars is the mariner 4