The first successful earth-orbiting artificial satellite was launched from the USSR in October 1957. Once it had achieved orbit, its name was announced to the world as "Sputnik-1".
In 1957, the USSR launched the first satellite, Sputnik 1
October, 1957.
He was the first American to orbit the earth.
Sputnik-I
sputnik
The first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite.
The First Orbiting Space Station was Salyut 1. The first crew was unable to dock, but the second crew stayed for 23 days, but died from exposer to the vacuum of space while undocking. The world's first space station was de-orbited 175 days after launch.
Sputnik 1 was the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957.
Sputnik-I launched October 4, 1957 from the USSR.
think it was the soviet union.............
The first satellite (Sputnik I) was launched by the USSR (Russia) to demonstrate that they could launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
The first artificial satellite was Sputnik I, launched by the Soviet Union on the 4th of October 1957
No space station has orbited the moon. The first earth-orbiting space station was Skylab.