First person to discover space in recorded history was Socrates of Greece.
india
Coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia.
UK
To have something "discovered" it has to all ready exist and the space station was not discovered, but made by man and put into space.
In the sentence, the word "country" functions as a noun that serves as a possessive modifier for "its," indicating that the space shuttle belongs to or is associated with the country. The phrase "the country its first space shuttle" suggests that the space administration built the first space shuttle for that specific nation. Overall, "country" identifies the entity that is receiving the shuttle.
China was the first to discover gun powder, is that what you mean.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space and he was from Russia.
The USA sent the first mammal into space, it was a monkey.
The first country to discover water on the moon was India, with the finding announced by India's space agency, ISRO, in 2009. This discovery was made by the Moon Impact Probe on board India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
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.
I believe that russia was the first country to do so.