Article Detail Name of first country to launch satellite into space ? Answer: Russia Similar Questions : 1. Who was First man to reach North Pole ? Answer: Robert Peary 2. Who was first female Space Tourist ? Answer: Mrs. Anousheh Ansari in 2004 3. Who was first woman to climb Mount Everest ? Answer: Junko Tabei (Japan) 4. Name of First prime Minister of great Britain ? Answer: Robert Walpole 5. Who was the first man to compile the Encyclopaedia ? Answer: Aspheosis 6. Who won first Nobel prize for chemistry ? Answer: J.H. Wenthoff of Howlland 7. Who won first Nobel prize for physics ? Answer: W.K. Roentgen (Germany) Read more from - First in World