how do you have manned spaceflight already
The first human spaceflight was launched by the Soviet Union on 12 April 1961 as a part of the Vostok program, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin aboard.
putting a man in a box with a shoddily-built would-probably-die-if-they-got-to-space suit and just throwing them up to 60km with the power of explosions isn't exactly rocket science
well it is but you get it
romania notices that it might be able to launch people a bit HIGHER soon so they are working on a less stuff SPACESUIT
also working on: romania's very first aircraft carrier
romania also hears some tales of solid fuel
it decides not to give a stuff because liquid fuel is best fuel