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No. The USSR was, and the USA was next.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space and he was from Russia.
Russia (at the time the Soviet Union) was the first country to send a man into space. The man was cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man in outer space he was Russian
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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 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 first man to go to space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.