

Sputnik 1 was the first artifical satellite put into orbit. Based on how you define “first rocket in space”, it might have been Nazi Germany with their V2 rockets
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_spaceflight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceflight_before_1951






I think it’s more about learning to be human. He imitates other people and their mannerism not because they find his nature inconvenient, but because he think that by imitating them he can understand.