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a rocket may carry space equipment
Nobody, the first rocket to enter space was the German V-2 in WW2 which was an unmanned ballistic missile designed to carry a 1 ton explosive warhead.
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Sputnik, the first rocket into space many things to do with space: they got the first person into space the first satellite to launch into space the first orbit around the earth the first living being into space the first woman into space etc.
Many rockets that go into space do carry humans, but, most rockets do not.
This might not be completely accurate but I'm positive this is the general idea. A space probe is launched from a rocket. When the rocket reaches a certain distance into space, parts of the rocket that aren't necessary to carry the probe to its destination break loose from the rocket.
The first unmanned rocket to fly in space was the Russian Sputnik.
The first "rocket" successfully launched into space was actually a V-2 missile. The first rocket-ship that was successfully launched into space used rocket engines. A rocket engine pushes the rocket forward by expelling its exhaust in the opposite direction at a high speed.
Rockets in space carry both the fuel and oxidizer with them into space.
In 1969, the first rocket went to the moon. The name of the rocket that propelled them into space was the Saturn V rocket.
It was a German rocket in 1944.