the first rocket to reach "space" was likely the fourth test launch on October 3, 1942.
it was a German V-2 launched during WW2.
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.
Russian Major Yuri Gagarin on the Vostock II Rocket.
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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.
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.
The first manned rocket was launched in 1961
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The people who made the first space rocket were called Werner Von Braun and Walter Riedel.
Goddard did not create a rocket that went into space. He created the first liquid fuel rocket which was which lead to space rockets and for this is known as the father of modern rocketry. The first rocket to reach space was the V2 rocket made by the Germans during World War 2 as a weapon to deliver bombs.