The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a human into space. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961.
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to launch a successful space rocket, the R-7.
The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a space probe. The first successful spacecraft to reach the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959.
The U.S.S.R was the first country to put a spaceship in space, it was called Sputnik. It was in the year 1957.
The Soviet Union was the first country to reach space with the launch of the satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.
The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a human into space. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961.
Space Exploration did not begin in the US. The first country to successfully launch a human into outer space was the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to launch a successful space rocket, the R-7.
The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a space probe. The first successful spacecraft to reach the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959.
The U.S.S.R was the first country to put a spaceship in space, it was called Sputnik. It was in the year 1957.
The Soviet Union was the first country to reach space with the launch of the satellite Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957.
The first Space shuttle to launch was Columbia in April of 1981
The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched in space in 1961.
Mercury Freedom 7, carrying Alan Shepard, was the first launch of a human astronaut by the US and the second launch of a human into space.
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Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union, was the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. That launch took place on 4 October 1957
The first two countries to put astronauts into space were the Soviet Union and the United States. The third country to have a citizen enter space was Czechoslovakia. The third country to launch their own citizen into space was China. The third country to achieve launch capability was France. The third country to put a satellite into space was Canada.