No Russia was, but we America was first to get on the moon.
In April 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Cosmonaut, was the first person to journey into outer space.
U.S, Russia, China, France, Germany, India
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You have probably heard that U.S and Russia had a race to space. Russia was the first to make it to space and orbit around the planet. The Space Race was an informal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could make the furthest advancements into space first. It involved the efforts to explore outer space with artificial satellites, to send humans into space, and to land them on the Moon.-Wikipedia
outer (as in "outer space")
they built it in outer space
There is no antonym for outer space.
outer (as in "outer space")
the coldest regions of outer space
zoom out and you can find earth in outer space
It is impossible to know at our stage of development. Humans today can only see a small part of space. Maybe one day human or robots can adventure into space and possible find life in outer space.