Question

What other achievements in space did the USSR accomplish?

Answer 1

First artificial earth satellite: Sputnik.

First animals to successfully orbit the earth: Belka and Strelka.

First on the moon: Luna 2 probe.

First man in space: Yuri Gagarin.

First woman in space: Valentina Tereshkova.

First spacewalk: Alexei Leonov.

First remote-controlled rover on another celestial body: Lunokhod 1