Alan Shepard
Alan Sheppard. he was the 2d in space and first for the US.
Space Shuttle Columbia
In the 1940s the US sent fruit flies into space
The US Skylab
The first "space station" was "Skylab".
The first US space station was named Skylab. It was launched by NASA in 1973 and remained in orbit until 1979.
Skylab
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Sputnik, the first rocket into space many things to do with space: they got the first person into space the first satellite to launch into space the first orbit around the earth the first living being into space the first woman into space etc.
The US's first space shuttle was called Columbia. It was part of NASA's Space Shuttle Program and completed its first orbital flight on April 12, 1981.
Skylab was the first US manned space laboratory. It was launched in 1973 and orbited Earth until 1979. Skylab was used to conduct experiments in microgravity and study the effects of long-duration space missions on the human body.
Space Exploration did not begin in the US. The first country to successfully launch a human into outer space was the Soviet Union.