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===Suborbital=== Considering merely launching an object beyond the [[Kármán line]] to be the minimum requirement of spacefaring, [[Nazi Germany|Germany]], with the [[V-2 rocket]], became the first spacefaring nation in 1944.<ref>''Peenemünde,'' Walter Dornberger, Moewig, Berlin 1984. {{ISBN|3-8118-4341-9}}.</ref> The following nations have only achieved [[suborbital spaceflight]] capability by launching indigenous [[rocket]]s or [[missile]]s or both into suborbital space: # [[Nazi Germany]] (June 20, 1944) # [[East Germany]] (April 12, 1957) # [[Canada]] (September 5, 1959) # [[Lebanon]] (November 21, 1962) # [[Switzerland]] (October 27, 1967) # [[Argentina]] (April 16, 1969) # [[Brazil]] (September 21, 1976) # [[Spain]] (February 18, 1981) # [[West Germany]] (March 1, 1981) # [[Iraq]] (June 1984) # [[South Africa]] (June 1, 1989) # [[Sweden]] (May 8, 1991) # [[Yemen]] (May 12, 1994) # [[Pakistan]] (April 6, 1998) # [[Taiwan]] (December 15, 1998) # [[Syria]] (September 1, 2000) # [[Indonesia]] (September 29, 2004) # [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]] (2007) # [[New Zealand]] (November 30, 2009) # [[Norway]] (September 27, 2018) # [[Netherlands]] (September 19, 2020)<ref>{{Cite web |title=T-Minus Engineering – T-Minus DART |url=http://www.t-minus.nl/products/dart |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001150708/http://www.t-minus.nl/products/dart/ |archive-date=2020-10-01 |access-date=2020-09-19 |website=www.t-minus.nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Couriermail.com.au {{!}} Subscribe to The Courier Mail for exclusive stories|url=https://www.couriermail.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=CMWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&dest=https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/south-australia/southern-launch-to-attempt-second-rocket-launch-to-the-edge-of-space-from-koonibba-in-outback-south-australia/news-story/624294b7d5b34107e1f5ba162a3898da&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&nk=7934fb08cbe5fff84b7aa72030829bbd-1600479859&v21suffix=97-a|access-date=2020-09-19|website=www.couriermail.com.au}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-09-14|title=Australia re-enters the space race|url=https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/australia-re-enters-the-space-race/|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Cosmos Magazine|language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Australian Space Agency|url=https://twitter.com/ausspaceagency/status/1307121671300673540|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Southern Launch|url=https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=46926.60|access-date=2020-09-19|website=forum.nasaspaceflight.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Upcoming Launches|url=https://southernlaunch.space/upcominglaunches|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Southern Launch|language=en-AU|archive-date=2020-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123140824/https://southernlaunch.space/upcominglaunches|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Successful fire|url=https://twitter.com/southernlaunch/status/1307117421648654337|access-date=2020-09-19|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref> #[[Turkey]] (October 29, 2020)
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