It was the Apollo 8 spacecraft.
The first manned flight to the moon was on an Apollo spacecraft launched by America.
Yuri Gagarin
The first spaceship to do a soft landing on the moon was part of the Apollo Space program. The spaceship was not manned and did not have a name. This was in 1967.
it's spaceship one
The idea of manned flight has been around for hundreds and maybe thousands of years. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers made the first successful powered flight by a manned vehicle.
in 1961
first manned helicopter flight
On May 5 1961 Mercury 3 took Alan Shepard to space making it America's first manned space flight
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.
The first manned flight was on April 12th 1961 with Yuri Gagarin. The first man landing on the Moon was on July 20th 1969. So it was a bit under 8 years.
No, Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon, but it did not land.
The first manned space flight took place in 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.