the countries of USA and SOVIET-UNION were engaged in a space war.
it was the cold war which was then called the SPACE AGE
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 into space in 1957, marking the beginning of the space age and the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
Many countries launched Chandrayaan-1 into space but USA launched it first and also launched it second .
North Korea launched its first satellite into space in 2009.
The USSR.
It was USSR (the Russian-led Soviet Union), who launched the Spotnik as the first man-made space-craft.
Russia launched Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.
The first orbiting space station was Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971.
The United States has launched the most number of satellites into space.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in the cargo bay of a Space Shuttle that took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, US.
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to launch a successful space rocket, the R-7.
Gemini missions were launched from the United States in the 1960s as a part of the American space program.
united states of america