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.
this is all i only know there was the first monkey and the first dog in space.
They sent a monkey into space named Albert on June 11, 1948
the monkey was the first mammle to travel to space.
The USA sent the first mammal into space, it was a monkey.
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 ').
No. Russia sent a dog named Laika into space first.
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!