To see if it was safe for a human to travel into safe. If the monkey made it, a human might survive space travel. If the ape died, then it was not safe for a human to go into space. The chimp lived, so human beings were sent into outer space.
The first astronaut sent into space was Yuri Gagarin, who was from the Soviet Union. He launched aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961, completing one orbit around Earth. This historic flight marked a significant milestone in the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Gagarin's achievement made him an international hero and a symbol of Soviet space exploration.
Yes, a Chimpanzee named Debby the Bloop.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.
Neil Armstrong and some other people. Also Russia were the first people that sent something up to space because they sent a dog but that dog died when it came up to space.
1961
The first chimpanzee launched into outer space was named Ham. He was sent into space by NASA in 1961 aboard the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission to test the effects of space travel on a living organism.
The US sent a chimpanzee named Ham into space in 1961. Ham's mission was part of a series of tests to prepare for human spaceflight.
Chimpanzee
US didn't send Laika into space, the Soviets AKA the Russians AKA USSR did.
The first live being sent into space by the USA was a chimpanzee called Hamm.
A chimpanzee (monkey)
Yes, NASA sent several monkeys to space as part of their research on the effects of space travel on living organisms. The most famous case is Ham the chimpanzee who flew on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission in 1961.
They sent a Russian dog to space, they sent a chimpanzee to space and they sent/send humans to space.Neil Armstrong, Buzz Lightyear (whatever his last name is)All those people. XD
Hector the rat was sent into space by France on February 22, 1961.
1961
The U.S. sent Astronaut Alan Shepard into space on May 5th, 1961. This was 23 days after the Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space on April 12th, 1961.
The Soviet Union sent the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, 1961.