The worlds' first artificial satelite was put in orbit by Soviet Union in 1957, named Sputnik 1. Since then thousands of prolab satelites were put in orbit by several countries around the globe.
The first man-made object to successfully be placed in Earth orbit was dubbed "Sputnik". It was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ... part of the USSR at the time ... on October 4, 1957.
SAS 2
The answer was: Edmund Halley
April 12 ,1961
The first satellite in orbit was launched by the Russians on October 4, 1957. The satellite was Sputnik I, and it spurred the USA to launch their own satellite, Explorer I, on January 31, 1958.Sputnik 1
The first satellite put into orbit by the U.S. was called Explorer 1.
The very first satellite put into orbit was the Russian satellite Sputnik put into orbit on October 4th, 1957.
The USSR did.
The Russian put the first man in earth orbit, he was Yuri Gagarin in the year 1961.
It must be Eisenhower.
Explorer
voyager 1
Sutnick was the very first Satellite that was put into orbit.=)
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to put a man into orbit. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space and orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Russia (Sputnik 1)
Insat 1a
This was the first space station and was put into orbit by the USSR.