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No. The USSR was, and the USA was next.
The first rockets that carried man into space were made by the Russian's in 1961. The USA didn't get a man into space until 1964 but beat the Russians to the moon in 1969.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space and he was from Russia.
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.
Explorer-1 was the first U.S. satellite successfully launched into space, in January 1958. Alan Shepard was the first U.S. man launched into space, in January 1961.
The first country to launch the first successful manned space flight was Russia. Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space as a result of that achievement.
The Soviet Union sent the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into space on April 12, 1961.
The first man to go to space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.
Russia Yuri Gagarin
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.