section_path: Spacefaring/Suborbital
section_name: Suborbital
paragraph_text: Suborbital
  
  Considering merely launching an object beyond the Kármán line to be the minimum requirement of spacefaring, Germany, with the V-2 rocket, became the first spacefaring nation in 1944. The following nations have only achieved suborbital spaceflight capability by launching indigenous rockets or missiles or both into suborbital space: