Consider the question. 1902-French cinema pioneer Georges Méliès directs A Trip to the Moon, the first film about space travel. 1903-Konstantin Tsiolkovsky begins a series of papers discussing the use of rocketry to reach outer space, space suits, and colonization of the solar system. Two key points discussed in his works are liquid fuels and staging. 1913-Without knowing the work of Russian mathematician Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, French engineer Robert Esnault-Pelterie derived the equations for space flight, produced a paper that presented the rocket equation and calculated the energies required to reach the Moon and nearby planets. 1922-Hermann Oberth publishes his scientific work about rocketry and space exploration: Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen ("By Rocket into Planetary Space"). 1924-Society for Studies of Interplanetary Travel founded in Moscow by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Friedrich Zander and 200 other space and rocket experts 1926-Robert Goddard launches the first liquid fuel rocket. 1927-Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR-"Spaceflight Society") founded in Germany. 1929-Woman in the Moon, considered to be one of the first "serious" science fiction films. 1931-Friedrich Schmiedl attempts the first rocket mail service in Austria 1935-Emilio Herrera Linares from Spain designed and made the first full-pressured astronaut suit, called the escafandra estratonáutica. The Russians then used a model of Herrera's suit when first flying into space of which the Americans would then later adopt when creating their own space program. 1937-Peenemünde Army Research Center founded in Germany 1938-The Projectile Development Establishment founded at Fort Halstead for the United Kingdom's research into military solid-fuel rockets. 1939-Katyusha multiple rocket launchers (Russian: Катюша) are a type of rocket artillery first built and fielded by the Soviet Union. 1941-French rocket EA-41 is launched, being the first European liquid propellant working rocket 1941-Jet Assisted Take Off JATO installed on US Army Air Corp Ercoupe aircraft occurred on 12 August in March Field, California. 1942-Wernher von Braun and Walter Dornberger launch the first V-2 rocket at Peenemünde in northern Germany. 1942-A V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 85 km. 1944-The V-2 rocket MW 18014 reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object in space. 1945-Lothar Sieber dies after the first vertical take-off manned rocket flight in a Bachem Ba 349 "Natter" 1945-Operation Paperclip takes 1,600 German rocket scientists and technicians to the United States 1945-Operation Osoaviakhim takes 2,000 German rocket scientists and technicians to the Soviet Union 1946-First flight of the Nike missile, later the first operational surface-to-air guided missile 1947-Chuck Yeager achieves the first manned supersonic flight in a Bell X-1 rocket-powered aircraft 1949-Willy Ley publishes The Conquest of Space 1952-22 May, French Véronique 1 rocket is launched from the Algerian desert. 1952-Wernher von Braun discusses the technical details of a manned exploration of Mars in Das Marsprojekt. 1953-Colliers Magazine publishes a series of articles on man's future in space, igniting the interest of people around the world. The series includes numerous articles by Ley and von Braun, illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. 1956-First launch of PGM-17 Thor, the first US ballistic missile and forerunner of the Delta space launch rockets 1957-Launch of the first ICBM, the USSR's R-7 (8K71), known to NATO as the SS-6 Sapwood. 1957-The USSR launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. 1958-The U.S. launches Explorer 1, the first American artificial satellite, on a Jupiter-C rocket. 1958-US launches their first ICBM, the Atlas-B (the Atlas-A was a test article only). 1961-the USSR launches Vostok 1, Yuri Gagarin reached a height of 327 km above Earth and was the first man to orbit Earth. 1961-US, a Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 with Alan B. Shepard, spacecraft was launched by a Redstone rocket on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight. 1962-The US launches Mercury MA-6 (Friendship 7) on an Atlas D booster, John Glenn finally puts America in orbit. 1963-The USSR launches Vostok 6, Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman (and first civilian) to orbit Earth. She remained in space for nearly three days and orbited the Earth 48 times. 1963-US X-15 rocket-plane, the first reusable manned spacecraft (suborbital) reaches space, pioneering reusability, carried launch and glide landings. 1965-USSR Proton rocket, highly successful launch vehicle with notable payloads, Salyut 6 & Salyut 7, Mir & ISS components 1965-Robert Salked investigates various single stage to orbit spaceplane concepts 1966-USSR Luna 9, the first soft landing on the Moon 1966-USSR launches Soyuz spacecraft, longest-running series of spacecraft, eventually serving Soviet, Russian and International space missions. 1969-US Apollo 11, first men on the Moon, first lunar surface extravehicular activity. 1981-US space shuttle pioneers reusability and glide landings 1998-US Deep Space 1 is first deep space mission to use an ion thruster for propulsion. 1998-Russia launch Zarya module which is the first part of the International Space Station.

When did the first rocket launched into space?
 If the answer is '1944'; explain the reasoning:
To answer this question, we should know that: 1944-The V-2 rocket MW 18014 reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object in space.