Man first sent an onject into space in 1957. This object was the Soviet Union's satellite Sputnik 1.
The space race was a competition between space agencies (historically those of the USA and the USSR) to be the first to accomplish a particular goal: the first to send a man in orbit around the earth, or the first to send a man to the moon.
Russia (at the time the Soviet Union) was the first country to send a man into space. The man was cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
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The USSR's Vostok 1 was the first ever spacecraft to carry a man into space.
The former USSR was.
The USSR (Russia) was.
The Sovjet Union was the first state to send a man-made satellite into space. It was launched on the 4th of October, 1957 and called Sputnik-1.
Alan Shepard Jr.
because the moon is the earth's nearest neighbor
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