No the USSR placed the first artificial satellite and first man in space before the United States.
the first program to send Americans into space was called "project mercury"
Mercury was the name given to the first American space program.
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Project Mercury sent the first 6 Americans into space. They were all solo flights.
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The Americans went first in space if manned it was in 1961 and Alan. B. Shepherd was the astronaut.
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On May 5, 1961; The Freedom 7 rocket blasted off carrying the first American into space.
Many people believe that the americans won it but that is not true. The US. was first to land on the moon but the russians were the first in space.
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The first astronauts were test pilots.
The Americans landed on the moon first because Neil Armstrong was American. Also the Russians did not have technology that the Americans did, the Americans had better materials to build space ships with.