The first man-made object to successfully be placed in Earth orbit was dubbed "Sputnik".
It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ... part of the USSR at
the time ... on October 4, 1957.
The Soviet Union was the first country to put a satellite in space on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
North Korea launched its first satellite into space in 2009.
I believe that russia was the first country to do so.
Russia
The first country to launch a satellite into space was Russia, under the Soviet Union. The satellite was 'Sputnik 1'. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It's launch sparked a crisis within the US which precipitated the space race during the Cold War.
USA flew a rhesus monkey into space on June 11, 1948. Russian Sputnik 1 was the first satellite into space, on 4 October 1957.
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to send an artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space in 1957.
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1, into space on October 4, 1957.
USA but Russia was the first to make a satellite.
The USSR or Russia. They had the first satellite, the first animal in space, the first manned space flight, and the first space walk. But we beat them to the moon.
The U.S.S.R was the first country to put a spaceship in space, it was called Sputnik. It was in the year 1957.
The Soviet Union was the first country to reach space with the launch of the satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.