Space & the Universe
As of 2024, how many countries have launched humans into orbit using their own rockets?
Answer
3 countries
Only the Soviet Union/Russia (1961), the United States (1962), and China (2003) have ever done it. Every other nation's astronauts have hitched rides on someone else's rocket.
Source: Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
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