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A key advance was the invention of the first liquid-fuelled rocket in 1926 by the American Robert Goddard in Auburn, Massachusetts. Goddard is considered to be one of the fathers of the modern rocket era.
Split and merge into it. Answer by Don Dfoofnik. Confidence votes 173K. There are three kinds of answers: ones that are mostly right, ones that are mostly wrong, and those that once were right but now are wrong. The first rocket to reach space was a V-2 (V-4)rocket launched in 1942 by the Germans during World War II. The first space satellite to orbit the Earth was Sputnik 1 in 1957. The first manned spacecraft was the Vostok I, which carried Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into Earth orbit on April 12, 1961.