The first manned orbital capsule was the Vorstok 1, manned by soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.

The first US space laboratory was Skylab

Yuri Gagarin

Major Robert Lawrence was the first African-American to become an astronaut and he was selected to be a part of the manned orbiting laboratory project.

There were a total of 19 Apollo missions:

Apollo-1A : Unmanned suborbital flight

Apollo - 2 : Unmanned orbital flight

Apollo - 3 : Unmanned suborbital flight

Apollo - 1 : Manned orbital mission, cancelled due to fatal accident.

Apollo - 4 : Unmanned orbital flight

Apollo - 5 : Unmanned orbital flight

Apollo - 6 : Unmanned orbital fligth

Apollo - 7 : Manned orbital mission

Apollo - 8 : Manned lunar orbit mission

Apollo - 9 : Manned orbital mission

Apollo -10 : Manned lunar orbit mission

Apollo- 11 : Lunar Landing mission

Apollo- 12 : Lunar Landing mission

Apollo- 13 : Lunar Landing mission, aborted due to accident

Apollo- 14 : Lunar Landing mission

Apollo- 15 : Lunar Landing mission

Apollo- 16 : Lunar Landing mission

Apollo- 17 : Lunar Landing mission

Apollo -18 : Space rendevous mission with Soviet Soyuz spacecraft (Apollo-Soyuz)