A Soviet dog.
No. Russia sent a dog named Laika into space first.
The first person in Space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.
Andrew Thomas
The U.S.S.R was the first country to put a spaceship in space, it was called Sputnik. It was in the year 1957.
russia had the first space station
Mariner 4 was the first ship to visit Mars.
The USA sent the first mammal into space, it was a monkey.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space and he was from Russia.
russia was the first to go into space with sputnick
to risky and expensive
The USSR or Russia. They had the first satellite, the first animal in space, the first manned space flight, and the first space walk. But we beat them to the moon.