I believe it was a dog, a St Bernard, parachuted from 26,000ft during World War II.
Approximately 175,000 soldiers landed by sea, parachute and glider.
Over 170,000 men landed by boat, glider and parachute in the first 24 hours.
Over 170,000 landed by sea, by parachute and by glider.
No animal has landed on the moon other then man.
The largest number landed on small landing boats, but many by parachute and in large gliders.
No animal has ever landed on the moon, only humans (and only 12 of those!)
The First Canadian Parachute Battalion was formed during WWII and served in North West Europe. They landed in Normandy on D-Day.
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The first parachute was made from silk. André-Jacques Garnerin, who invented the parachute in 1797, used a silk parachute to make successful jumps.
As far as is known to the general public, no animal has ever landed on the moon. Unless you want to make the perfectly logical generalization and say that the first and only animal to land on the moon so far has been the Human animal.
Skydiving can be dated as far back as the 1100s in Ancient Chine. Leonardo da Vinci designed a pyramidal, wooden framed parachute in approximately 1495. Adrian Nichols jumped this parachute in the late 20th century. The skydive was successful, but do to a fear of the parachute being too heavy and crushing him, Nichols cut away the parachute and landed under his reserve. In the late 18th century, Jacques Garnerin from France performed display jumps from balloons throughout Europe. This was the beginning of the modern sport of skydiving.
Blanchard developed the first foldable parachute made from silk.