The first spacecraft to come into contact with the moon was the Soviet Luna 2 space probe, which impacted the moon on September 13th 1959.
The first spacecraft to land safely on the moon was the Luna 9 spacecraft, also Soviet, which landed on Febuary 3rd 1966.
The first rocket launched by the United Stateswas Explorer 1, whichwas launchedon January 31, 1958. It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen Belt. Explorer 1 was designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Labratory of the California Institute of Technology. It weighed 30.8 pounds. Explorer 1 sopped transmitting data on May 23, 1958. It reentered the earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean on March 31, 1970 after circling the earth more than 58,000 times.
answ2. The first satellite was the Russian Sputnik in 1957, followed soon after by the US Explorer 1 of the Vanguard programme. By far the majority of satellites are un-manned.
The first Space craft is Vostak 1 , who take Yuri gagarin in to space in 1961 by Russians.
first successful space flight with a human is the sputnik so technically its the first, all others would technically be probes and any theoretical designs would be irrelevant.
Sputnik by the Soviet Union
on october 5 1957 being the sputnik 1
1987
A spaceship
That would be the 'Space Shuttle'. Columbia was the first Shuttle to go into Space on April 12, 1981.
Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
Sputnik
Sputnik
Spacecraft do not and cannot 'land' in space.
yuri gagrin
Sputnik from Russia.
That would be the 'Space Shuttle'. Columbia was the first Shuttle to go into Space on April 12, 1981.
Enterprise
Into space?
You go on a spacecraft.
1987
The first man made craft was the Russian craft Sputnik.
Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
Sputnik
Sputnik
Spacecraft do not and cannot 'land' in space.