[Gargoyle_Steve (Steve)]

I just read something that rather intrigued me, so I thought I'd run it past the IIS population here and see who actually might know this fact.

The first country to launch it's own satellite (ie designed and manufactured within that country) from a launchpad located within that same country was the USSR. (No great surprise there)

The second country to do so was then, of course, the USA....
(ditto no surprise)

The third country to achieve this feat was in fact France....
(mildly interesting)

Without looking this up does anyone know which country was the fourth to achieve such a feat?