No animals have ever been sent to the moon.
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We don't know yet as no woman has gone to the moon.
The United States was in the Space Race with Russia. Russia sent its first man in space first, but the United States retaliated and sent Neil Armstrong to the moon, making him the first man on the moon.
The Soviets launched a series of Luna probes that took the first pictures of the far side of the Moon. In 1966, Luna 9 made the first successful landing on the Moon and sent back television footage from the Moon's surface.
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As far as is known to the public, no animals other than homo sapiens have ever been sent to the moon. Since biologists consider people to be animals like any other, (we are certainly not plants), the first animal to walk on the moon was a human by the name of Neil Armstrong
a monkey.
We don't know yet as no woman has gone to the moon.
Answer 1:No animal was launched in order to orbit the Moon, only humans were on lunar missions.Answer 2:According to the book "Turtles and Tortoises for Dummies" by Liz Palika, the Soviet interplanetary probe number 5 carried several Russian tortoises into lunar orbit making them the first vertebrates to circle the moon. This flight took place in October 1968.
Laika a dog was the first animal in space it was sent by the soviet union
The first man on the Moon was Neil Armstrong. He was sent to the Moon because the Russians had already sent a man into space and America wanted to beat them so they sent a manned mission to the Moon.
They were first sent to the moon on July 18, 1969. They actually landed on the moon on July 20, 1969
Only the US have sent men to the moon
The United States was in the Space Race with Russia. Russia sent its first man in space first, but the United States retaliated and sent Neil Armstrong to the moon, making him the first man on the moon.
The Soviets launched a series of Luna probes that took the first pictures of the far side of the Moon. In 1966, Luna 9 made the first successful landing on the Moon and sent back television footage from the Moon's surface.
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