Want this question answered?
The Gemini program which came between the Mercury and Apollo programs were designed to give this sort of experience.
Mercury
Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (Nuclear pulse propulsion)
Project Gemini, originally named Mercury Mark II, was the second US space program. It was a bridge from project Mercury to the Apollo moon missions program. The spacecraft carried two people and tested rendezvous and docking.
The Apollo/Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was the first joint international space flight. The Soyuz 19 spacecraft lifted off about 10 hours before the US Apollo spacecraft. The Apollo spacecraft performed the actual docking in space two days later on July 17, 1975. The 2 spacecrafts remained docked for one day before they parted and went their separate ways.
I"m actually trying to find out so please improve answer
Redstone.
The Gemini program which came between the Mercury and Apollo programs were designed to give this sort of experience.
The Project Orion study, often misspelled as the Project Onion study, examined a spacecraft that was meant to be launched by igniting a set of atomic bombs off behind the vehicle. The project was halted in 1963.
Mercury
The Orion project has been canceled by Congress and the administration.
The first mission was the Mercury one manned spacecraft, Gemini was a two man spacecraft and Apollo was a three man mission.
no
Project Gemini and Project Apollo had astronauts practice piloting and working in space.
Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (Nuclear pulse propulsion)
An Apollo spacecraft. As part of the Mercury project he was the first American in space.
The apollo project spacecraft mostly landed on the sea of tranquillity, which is visible from Earth at night