Mercury Freedom 7, carrying Alan Shepard, was the first launch of a human astronaut by the US and the second launch of a human into space.
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to launch a successful space rocket, the R-7.
The first two countries to put astronauts into space were the Soviet Union and the United States. The third country to have a citizen enter space was Czechoslovakia. The third country to launch their own citizen into space was China. The third country to achieve launch capability was France. The third country to put a satellite into space was Canada.
The first space shuttle launch was from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first shuttle launch was Giza to Cairo, Egypt. (Around 12 B.C.)
Yuri Gagarin (USSR) became the first human in space on 12 April 1961.
Mercury Freedom 7, carrying Alan Shepard, was the first launch of a human astronaut by the US and the second launch of a human into space.
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to launch a successful space rocket, the R-7.
Space Exploration did not begin in the US. The first country to successfully launch a human into outer space was the Soviet Union.
The first two countries to put astronauts into space were the Soviet Union and the United States. The third country to have a citizen enter space was Czechoslovakia. The third country to launch their own citizen into space was China. The third country to achieve launch capability was France. The third country to put a satellite into space was Canada.
The first space shuttle launch was from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida. The first shuttle launch was Giza to Cairo, Egypt. (Around 12 B.C.)
The first Space shuttle to launch was Columbia in April of 1981
The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched in space in 1961.
Yuri Gagarin (USSR) became the first human in space on 12 April 1961.
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All Space Shuttles have been launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Kennedy Space Center has been the launch site for every U.S. human space flight since 1968.
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Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union, was the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. That launch took place on 4 October 1957