Probably Hermann Oberth.
Robert H. Goddard was the one to build the first ever liquid fuel rocket in the history of man. He also successfully launched it.
Apollo 11, the first mission to land on the moon in 1969 used the Saturn V rocket.
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 rocket that took the first man to the moon was the Saturn V rocket.
No, the first man went up after sputnik's launch. For more info, search "Yuri Gagagarin"
The first country to launch the first successful manned space flight was Russia. Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space as a result of that achievement.
The first man to make a rocket was the Chinese inventor Wan Hu, who is believed to have attempted a rocket-powered flight using a chair attached to two kites and 47 gunpowder-filled rockets in the 2nd century AD. Unfortunately, the outcome of this flight is unknown.
the Russian
Well no man individually used the first rocket, but the Germans in WW2 were the first to test rockets (The V1. V2s)
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961 .
No. The USSR was the first to launch any kind of space craft with the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957. The US was the first to send a man to the moon in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission
The first man-made vehicle purpose built to reach space was Sputnik 1 launched on an R-7 rocket by the USSR on October 4 1957. Prior to this, a German V2 rocket had reached the arbitrary limit we call 'space' - 62 miles - by mistake.