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 achieved the first manned space flight on April 12, 1961, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbiting the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Depending if you mean any air flight of flight to space. First Space Shuttle was Columbia First Successful flight was over the English Channel.
The first American to achieve suborbital flight was Alan Shepard. He flew aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft on May 5, 1961, reaching a maximum altitude of about 116 miles (187 kilometers) before safely returning to Earth. This historic flight made Shepard the first American in space, albeit briefly, and marked a significant milestone in the early days of the U.S. space program.
The first space flight was in 1981, Columbia was the first to make a space flight. The shuttle was a masterpiece of engineering. After being launched into space it could be flown like a plane.
No, Russia was the first country to send up a object to space.The answer above is not correct.The first object sent into space was a German V2 in 1942. There even is a movie showing the first images of space.Soviet Union sent the first flight with an animal (the Dog Laïka), and the first flight with a human (Yuri Gagarine)
The first human in space was Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. He made his historic flight on April 12, 1961 aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft, paving the way for human space exploration.
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John Young, on his fifth space flight (the pilot was Bob Crippen, on his first space flight)
The space shuttle Enterprise made its first atmospheric flight on February 18, 1977. It was carried aloft aboard a Boeing 747 aircraft for the test flight, which did not involve a launch into space.
The Soviet Union was the first country to send a man into space, with Yuri Gagarin's historic flight on April 12, 1961. Later, on June 16, 1963, the Soviet Union also sent the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, into space. These achievements marked significant milestones in space exploration during the Cold War era.
The space shuttle Challenger had its first flight in April 1983.