Question: When did the first rocket go into space?

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question: When did the first manned rocket go into space?
short_answers: April 12, 1961
context: Goddard's paper was highly influential on Hermann Oberth, who in turn influenced Wernher von Braun. Von Braun became the first to produce modern rockets as guided weapons, employed by Adolf Hitler. Von Braun's V-2 was the first rocket to reach space, at an altitude of on a June 1944 test flight.
question: When did the first rocket reach space?
short_answers: June 1944

Answer: The first rocket reached space in June 1944. The V-2 rocket MW 18014 reaches an altitude of 176 km, becoming the first man-made object in space. The first manned rocket went into space on April 12, 1961. A Mercury capsule named Freedom 7 with Alan B. Shepard, spacecraft was launched by a Redstone rocket on a ballistic trajectory suborbital flight. It was the first human space mission that landed with pilot still in spacecraft, thus the first complete human spaceflight by FAI definitions.