Yes, it can. I sent my pet monkey to NASA and they didn't send it back, so I assumed they sent it to space. :]
The first creature to go to outer space was a dog named Laika.
Monkey
The first Iowan in space was Peggy Whitson.
Well acording to space the first thing to go to the moon/space was a monkey :D To do a test, the test was that if the monkey would come back down or not!! You would not like to go to space and never come back so they sent a monkey up to test
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.
jack and jim
I believe the monkey was the first animal to go to space, even before humans. People wanted to test if it was safe so they sent a monkey out.
Yuri Gagarin.
Rakesh Sharma
Albert 1 was a rhesus monkey. I got that info on wikipedia.com.
The first black person to travel to outer space was Guion Bluford, who flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1983.