The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was the first program to place a man on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first person on the moon.
Apollo
Mercury was the name given to the first American space program.
Mercury.
mercury
Mercury was the name of the first American Space program started by NASA. The goals were to see if humans can go to space and function normaly.
Mercury.
Edward Higgins White II
While it is technically impossible to "walk" in space, the Russians (U.S.S.R at the time) were the first one's to go to space, and the American's were the first to walk on the moon.
She was the first African American women to be included in the NASA space program
The space program was Project Apollo, or the Apollo Program.
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 second American maned space program was the two man spacecrafts called the Gemini.