Gordo, also known as "Old Reliable", was launched from Cape Canaveral on December 13, 1958 in the U.S. Jupiter AM-13 rocket.
Monkey
Well acording to space the first thing to go to the moon/space was a monkey :D To do a test, the test was that if the monkey would come back down or not!! You would not like to go to space and never come back so they sent a monkey up to test
jack and jim
I believe the monkey was the first animal to go to space, even before humans. People wanted to test if it was safe so they sent a monkey out.
A monkey.
They sent a monkey into space named Albert on June 11, 1948
this is all i only know there was the first monkey and the first dog in space.
the monkey was the first mammle to travel to space.
The first monkey in space was named Albert II June 19, 1949. The first living animal in space was a Soviet Union dog named Laika (pronounced ' like a ').
The USA sent the first mammal into space, it was a monkey.
Well the first and truly thing to go up to space was a monkey, to see uf it was safe and if it could reach back down to earth!
No. Russia sent a dog named Laika into space first.