The first rocket to reach 100 km (the height now recognized as being officially in space) was an unmanned German V-2 Rocket, in June, 1944.
The first satellite to reach Earth orbit was Sputnik I, launched by the USSR on October 4, 1957.
The first manned spacecraft was the Vostok I capsule carrying Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961.
It was a German rocket in 1944.
The first rocket to reach "space" was a German V-2 (the A4 rocket weapon) launched during World War II. According to test records, the first rocket to reach "space" was likely the fourth test launch on October 3, 1942.
the first rocket was
to go to space
The first unmanned rocket to fly in space was the Russian Sputnik.
It was a German rocket in 1944.
The first rocket to reach "space" was a German V-2 (the A4 rocket weapon) launched during World War II. According to test records, the first rocket to reach "space" was likely the fourth test launch on October 3, 1942.
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the first rocket was
to go to space
in a rocket
The first "rocket" successfully launched into space was actually a V-2 missile. The first rocket-ship that was successfully launched into space used rocket engines. A rocket engine pushes the rocket forward by expelling its exhaust in the opposite direction at a high speed.
The first unmanned rocket to fly in space was the Russian Sputnik.
In 1969, the first rocket went to the moon. The name of the rocket that propelled them into space was the Saturn V rocket.
The first monkeys in space were NOT in an aircraft, but in a V2 rocket made in Germany in WW2 and brought to USA after the war.
the pressure from the the rocket's fuel thingy makes the rocket go up. pretty soon, the rocket is in space.
USSR's Sputnik was the first rocket to go to space successfully probably ade a lot before though.