what was the first animal to go to the moon?

Answer 1

Bacterias not counting (some were inside Surveyor 3's camera, which was brough back by the crew of Apollo 12) the first animals on the moon was a pair of homo sapien, named Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin.

Answer 2

The first animals sent into space were some fruit flies which were launched in July 1946 by the USA using a captured V2 rocket. They didn't go into orbit around the Earth, simply up into space and back down again, rather like Burt Rutan's SpaceShip One.
A mouse launched in August 1950 (again by the USA) survived its flight into space.
On November 3, 1957, the USSR launched the dog "Laika" (meaning "Barker", which she was) into orbit in Sputnik 2.

There have only been two successful flights that have carried animals to the Moon. One flew around the far side of Moon and back to Earth, whilst the other went into orbit around the Moon:
The first animals to go into deep space were launched on Zond 5 on September 15, 1968, by the USSR. The menagerie consisted of turtles, some wine flies and meal worms. They were sent on a flight around the Moon, and the craft was recovered from the sea back on Earth on September 21. They were the first animals to travel to the Moon.
The Apollo 16 manned flight to the Moon in April 1972 carried some mice in the Command Module, which circled the Moon whilst John Young and Charlie Duke landed on its surface.

No animals have landed on the Moon, though when the Apollo 12 astronauts brought back the TV camera from the unmanned Surveyor 3, that had landed there 3 years before, scientists found some bacteria on the camer lens that had survived in the lunar vacuum in temperatures ranging from -100 to +100 degrees Celsius!

In fiction, Tintin's dog, Snowy, went along on the trip to the Moon, and in H.G. Wells' story "The First Men In The Moon", the travellers took chickens with them to provide eggs for the journey, as did the astronauts in Jules Verne's "From The Earth To The Moon", although in that story they did not land. And then of course there is the cow ...

Answer 3

Man, Homo sapiens, is the only animal to have ever gone to the moon.

The experiments with dogs and chimps were all in the early years of space flight, and only applied to orbits round the Earth. Once people were put into orbit, no other animals were sent up until some spiders were taken to the Skylab space station in the 70s. (That was an experiment suggested by some English school kids, to see if spiders could would weave webs in a weightless environment).

Answer 4

Humans were the first to go to the moon. The animals were only sent up to space into earth orbit. They never went to the moon.

Answer 5

The first animal to land on the moon was a dog.

Answer 6

attax321 is partially right, however Laika is the dog who went to live in a space station (orbit earth). The only living thing that landed on the moon was a human.

Answer 7

No animals went to the moon, all the lunar missions were done by humans.
You might be thinking about Laika, the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit. She was launched into orbit by the Russians in 1957.

Answer 8

the first animal in space was a dog . don't think a animal as gone to the moon

Answer 9

No animals, besides humans, have been to the moon. However, we have sent dogs and monkies into space. When I say 'we', I mean the Russians.

Answer 10

A bacteria on Luna 1