In the space race, the Soviets did almost everything first except put a man on the moon, which they never did.
The USSR or Russia. They had the first satellite, the first animal in space, the first manned space flight, and the first space walk. But we beat them to the moon.
No Russia was, but we America was first to get on the moon.
The first country to send a spacecraft to the moon was the Soviet Union with their Luna 2 mission in 1959.
No animal has ever been on the moon.
Russia was the first country to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon. The United States provided the first man on the moon.
Russia was the first to send unmanned probes to the moon, the US was the first to send humans.
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The flag of the United States was the first one placed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
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Neil Armstrong was the first animal to walk on the moon.
The first animal on the moon was Neil Armstrong, a human being.