Manned space flight is a voyage into space with a human passenger on board.
The Soviet Union achieved the first manned space flight on April 12, 1961, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbiting the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was a legendary Ottoman of 17th-century Istanbul, purported to have achieved sustained unpowered flight. See attached link.
The first attempted mechanical, heavier-than-air flight was in the early 1800s. At the time of the flight, the technology had been in the works for over a century, and it would be almost another one hundred years before a successful manned flight.
The USSR or Russia. They had the first satellite, the first animal in space, the first manned space flight, and the first space walk. But we beat them to the moon.
in 1961
first manned helicopter flight
The address of the Manned Space Flight Education Foundatio is: 1601 Nasa Pkwy, Houston, TX 77058-3145
The first recorded successful manned flight was the flight of the Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon on October 15th 1783. There are also records of manned flights on kites as early as the 5th century in China.
On May 5 1961 Mercury 3 took Alan Shepard to space making it America's first manned space flight
On 5 May, 1961 Alan Shepherd was launched on a sub-orbital flight into space aboard Freedom 7, the first manned mission of Project Mercury.
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