I think it was the Soviet Union
the soviet union was the first for everything in space except for the moon. first dog first man first woman first walk first to orbit. name just came to me laika she was also the first to die in space. we sent up a monkey but designed for a live re-entry so as not to disturb the public and cloud the space program
Laika and Belka were two Soviet space dogs who were part of the Soviet space program during the 1950s and 1960s. Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957, while Belka and her companion Strelka were the first living creatures to safely return from space in 1960.
a husky cross ,and the word laika is Russian for mutt
Lakia the Russian Dog, Ham the Chimp and Albert the Rhesus Monkey.
The name of the first ant in space was "Anita." Anita was part of an experiment by NASA in 2003 to study how ants behave in microgravity onboard the space shuttle.
russia
The first man to go to space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.
yes, of course, the first animal that went to space was monkey.
The first time the space shuttle went into orbit was April 12th, 1981
the first soviet who went to space in 1961 was alaxeyevich gagarin.
Sputnik
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first woman in space
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space.
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Yuri Gagarin
The first man in space was the Russian, Yuri Gagarin. He first went to space on the 12th of April, 1961.
Russia was the first to use dogs in space successfully. Of the 13 dogs that went into space, 5 died in flight.