We're not sure what the first launch may have been, or how many attempts preceded
the first success. But the first object to successfully achieve Earth orbit was Sputnik-1,
launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on October 4, 1957.
The first space craft was Sputnik, which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957
The first technology launched in the space was the Soviet Union's Sputnik I. The space technology was launched on October 4, 1957.
No. The first satellite to be launched into space was Sputnik, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
It was USSR (the Russian-led Soviet Union), who launched the Spotnik as the first man-made space-craft.
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1, into space on October 4, 1957.
The first satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched into space by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. This event marked the beginning of the Space Age and the start of the space race between the US and the Soviet Union.
The first orbiting space station was Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971.
The Soviet Union with Salyut 1, which went into orbit on April 19th, 1971.
The first spaceship to be launched into space was Vostok 1, which was a Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space, in 1961.
Sputnik I was launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957.
The first space station, Salyut 1, was launched by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.
The first satellite in space was the Russian Sputnik, launched in 1957.