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
No, Russia was the first country to send up a object to space.The answer above is not correct.The first object sent into space was a German V2 in 1942. There even is a movie showing the first images of space.Soviet Union sent the first flight with an animal (the Dog Laïka), and the first flight with a human (Yuri Gagarine)