NASA successfully launched its first satellite, Explorer 1, on 31 January 1958. NASA launched the first American into space, Alan Shepard, on 5 May 1961.
For the US, it was Mercury-Redstone 3 (piloted by Alan Shepard). For the USSR it was Vostok 1 (piloted by Yuri Gagarin)
Apollo 1 and its crew were destroyed in a fire while still on the pad weeks before the mission was scheduled to launch. While there were changes in NASA brought about by this tragedy, there were technically no mission accomplishments as the mission never took place.
NASA's Viking 1 and Viking 2 landed on Mars in 1976.
The Apollo 2 was unmanned. After the fire of Apollo 1, NASA felt safer testing the rocket without any crew aboard first. The next manned mission after the Apollo 1 fire was Apollo 7.
The manned programs were;Mercury 1 crewGemini 2 crewApollo 3 crew
i think its 1
Apollo 1 was the name of the first mission of NASA's Apollo program. The mission ended when the command module and the crew were destroyed in a fire during a routine test weeks before launch.
NASA's Pioneer 11 and Voyager 1 and 2, as well as a NASA/ESA mission called Cassini-Huygens
I think it was the Apollo 1 because there have been more than 1 Apollo there have been about 17 Apollo's and Apollo 13 was called the successful failure
1 Apr. 1 1960 The United States launched TIROS 1, the first successful meteorological satellite, for monitoring Earth's weather13 Apr. 1960The United States launched Transit 1B, the first experimental orbital navigation system12 Aug. 1960 NASA successfully orbited Echo 1, a 100-foot inflatable, passive communications satellite19 Dec. 1960NASA launched Mercury 1, the first Mercury-Redstone capsule-launch vehicle combinationSome historic events in the 1960s:- First Gemini mission, launched on March 23, 1965.- First American To Walk In Space in June 3, 1965.- Apollo 11 lands on the Moon, July 20, 1969.
For the US, it was Mercury-Redstone 3 (piloted by Alan Shepard). For the USSR it was Vostok 1 (piloted by Yuri Gagarin)
NASA successfully launched its first satellite, Explorer 1, on 31 January 1958. NASA launched the first American into space, Alan Shepard, on 5 May 1961.
For the US, it was Mercury-Redstone 3 (piloted by Alan Shepard). For the USSR it was Vostok 1 (piloted by Yuri Gagarin)
Apollo 1 and its crew were destroyed in a fire while still on the pad weeks before the mission was scheduled to launch. While there were changes in NASA brought about by this tragedy, there were technically no mission accomplishments as the mission never took place.
The Apollo spacecraft were not America's first craft.From NASA's publication Origin of NASA NamesAPOLLO. In July 1960 NASA was preparing to implement its long-range plan beyond Project Mercury and to introduce a manned circumlunar mission project-then unnamed-at the NASA/Industry Program Plans Conference in Washington. Abe Silverstein, Director of Space Flight Development, proposed the name "Apollo" because it was the name of a god in ancient Greek mythology with attractive connotations and the precedent for naming manned spaceflight projects for mythological gods and heroes had been set with Mercury.1 Apollo was god of archery, prophecy, poetry, and music, and most significantly he was god of the sun. In his horse-drawn golden chariot, Apollo pulled the sun in its course across the sky each day.2 NASA approved the name and publicly announced "Project Apollo" at the July 28-29 conference.3
NASA's Viking 1 and Viking 2 landed on Mars in 1976.