Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
Alan Shepard was the first American to go into space. His spacecraft was a rocket called "Redstone 4"; which carried a Mercury Capsule called "Freedom 7"
Scott crossfield flew the first winged spacecraft. the spacecraft was called the x-5.
Michael Collins is a American retired astronaut. who flew in a Gemini spacecraft and the Apollo 11 spacecraft.
He first flew the Mercury spacecraft in 1961 then Apollo 14 in 1971.
Ellison Onizuka was the first Asian American to "reach" space. He flew into space successfully with the Space Shuttle Discovery. He was killed during the mission as the Space Shuttle Challenger destructed.
Astronaut Jim Lovell never flew on a space shuttle. He flew on Apollo8 and 13 and Gemini spacecraft only.
It is called the Apollo spacecraft.
On February 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn flew the Friendship 7 spacecraft becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth circling the earth three times.
Yes Mariner 2 flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to achieve this.
Major Yuri Gagarin flew in the Russian spacecraft in 1961.
Asteroids are in space. The U.S. Apollo spacecraft flew in space.
USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937) was the first woman in space. She flew the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a three-day flight, June 16-18, 1963.The first female American astronaut, and third woman in space, was Sally Kristen Ride, who flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger in June, 1983.
John Glenn orbited in Friendship-7 in 1962 .
Scott crossfield flew the first winged spacecraft. the spacecraft was called the x-5.
Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American woman, flew to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, staying at the ISS from September 18, 2006 to September 29, 2006.
X-15 Actually, while the X-15 WAS technically the first US craft to enter space (it flew higher than 50 statute miles on several occasions) it only carried one pilot. The first US spacecraft to carry more than one astronaut was Gemini 3, launched on March 23rd, 1965 and crewed by commander V. I. "Gus" Grissom and pilot John W. Young.
the answer is the space shuttle challenger
Neil Armstrong went to space for the first time in the Gemini 8 spacecraft with David r. Scott. They flew on March 16 1966.