I think it was Sputnik. But the first man-made object in space was a steel plate that was launched into space by an atomic bomb test. That only happened two months before Sputnik.
splutnik
Venus was the first planet on which a space probe landed.
What was the first space probe to fly past the moon?
The first space probe was the satellite Sputnik I launched in 1957.
The first planet to be explored by a space probe is Venus. Hope this helps. : )
Russia
Sputnik
nobody really know's when the first space probe was created. But it was launched on october 4 1957
The first space probe was the Luna I by the United Soviet Socialist Republic. It did a flyby of the moon in 1959
Russians
The first US space probe was named "Pioneer 1". It was launched on 11th October 1958.
The first probe to land on Mars was called, the Hubble space craft.
The Russians invented the space probe and launched it into space on october 4, 1957.