To see how the environment and the launch would affect it.
It was fruit flies.
chimpanzee
it was a Chimpanzee
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To send pictures from space to earth for astronomers and scientists
A probe is a spacecraft that travels through space to collect science information. ... Probes send data back to Earth for scientists to study. The First Probes. Sputnik 1 was the first probe to go into space.
The first US space animal was a rhesus monkey, Albert II, on June 14, 1949. Later tests in 1950 used mice.
it is so very dangerous to travel if it is not tested by the scientist
The United States sent a rhesus monkey named Albert I to space in 1948, as part of a mission by the U.S. military.
they used to use the space shuttle but now they use unmaned space craft or the russians/ESA european space agency
the first people/ nation to send some form of satellite into space is the russians with thesputnik 1
Russia was the first in space where they went around the earth a few times but USA was the first on the moon. The first to send three into space though, was the USA.