A V2 German rocket/bomb reached low-earth-orbit in tests in 1942
(In another answer to a similar question, the same contributor writes:
"They say that a V2 German rocket/bomb reached low-earth-orbit . . . . . " etc.
So I'd be careful about taking this information to the bank, at least until I know
who "they" is.)
v-2 by Amman Riyaz Ahmed
In 1969, the first rocket went to the moon. The name of the rocket that propelled them into space was the Saturn V rocket.
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Goddard did not create a rocket that went into space. He created the first liquid fuel rocket which was which lead to space rockets and for this is known as the father of modern rocketry. The first rocket to reach space was the V2 rocket made by the Germans during World War 2 as a weapon to deliver bombs.
The first rocket to launch into space was the V-2 rocket, developed by Nazi Germany during World War II. The V-2 crossed the boundary between Earth's atmosphere and space on June 20, 1944. It laid the foundation for future space exploration.
The first "rocket" successfully launched into space was actually a V-2 missile. The first rocket-ship that was successfully launched into space used rocket engines. A rocket engine pushes the rocket forward by expelling its exhaust in the opposite direction at a high speed.
The first space rocket, called the V-2 rocket, was developed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was used for military purposes and had limited capabilities for space exploration.
On January 31, 1961, the United States launched the Mercury-Redstone 2 rocket into space. A chimp named Ham was aboard the space rocket.
The first successful flight to the moon was Apollo 11 in 1969. It took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FLA.
The first rocket to reach "space" was a German V-2 (the A4 rocket weapon) launched during World War II. According to test records, the first rocket to reach "space" was likely the fourth test launch on October 3, 1942. The first USSR (Russian) space satellite was Sputnik 1 in 1957, followed by the first US space satellite, Explorer 1, in 1958.
The first successful space rocket, capable of reaching the edge of space, was the German V-2 rocket developed by Wernher von Braun and his team during World War II. It was later used by the United States in their rocket program.
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to launch a successful space rocket, the R-7.