On April 12, 1961 the Soviet Union launched Vostok 1 -- the first manned spacecraft
manned space probe is when there are people traveling in a spaceship. whereas unmanned is when there is nobody in a ship unmanned is launched for the first time to a planet to see that a manned can land.
The first ever manned mission was done on April 12, 1961, by Yuri Gagarin (USSR).
The first manned rocket was launched in 1961
The first manned flight to the moon was on an Apollo spacecraft launched by America.
sputnik was the first space ship launched by india.
Well, Sputnik1 was the first satellite launched by the RUSSIANS!
Apollo 7 launched on October 11, 1968.
the space shuttle (discovery) was the first manned space ship that was reuseable.
The world's first artificial satellite, the Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.
On 5 May, 1961 Alan Shepherd was launched on a sub-orbital flight into space aboard Freedom 7, the first manned mission of Project Mercury.
It was Gemini 3. The first two in the Gemini program were unmanned.