It was done on year 1964
Apollo 8
The first spacecraft carrying a human to land safely was Vostok 1 carrying cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
Mercury Friendship 7 (John H. Glenn, USA) was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth three times.
The Space Shuttle
The Soviet Union was the first nation to successfully send a man into space, Yuri A. Gagarin in the Vostok spacecraft which orbited Earth once before returning on the 12th of April 1961.
apollo 8
Apollo 8
it was done on year 1964
The first spacecraft carrying a human to land safely was Vostok 1 carrying cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
John Glenn orbited in Friendship-7 in 1962 .
The first American spacecraft which orbited the earth was called The Mercury Friendship 7, and the astronaut was a famous person his name was John Glenn, he was a senator for many years later.
Mercury Friendship 7 (John H. Glenn, USA) was the first spacecraft to orbit the Earth three times.
It was the first United States effort to reach the moon, in which a piloted spacecraft successfully orbited around Earth and returned safely.
It was the first United States effort to reach the moon, in which a piloted spacecraft successfully orbited around Earth and returned safely.
The Space Shuttle
The first manned flight to the moon was on an Apollo spacecraft launched by America.
The Apollo 7 with astronauts Walter Schirra, Walter Cunningham,and a third astronaut became the first to test the Apollo spacecraft. Apollo 8 first orbited the moon and Apollo 11 first landed on the moon. Apollo 13 was the first damaged spacecraft to be returned to earth.