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The first rocket to reach 100 km (the height now recognized as being officially in space) was an unmanned German V-2 Rocket, in June, 1944.

The first satellite to reach Earth orbit was Sputnik I, launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957.

The first manned spacecraft was the Vostok I capsule carrying Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961.

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