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On the 12th of April 1961
The first powered, manned aircraft was called the Wright Flyer. It was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright and first flew on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.The name of the first heavier-than-aircraft was the 1903 Wright Flyer. The plane was designed and built by Orville and Wilbur Wright. The engine was designed and built by Charles E. Taylor. The aircraft is on display in the Smithsonian Museum of Flight in Washington DC.
The Space Shuttle was the first and only reusable manned vehicle to date, could land on a runway, haul astronauts and cargo at the same time, and service and construct space stations.
To date there have been 282 manned missions sent into space and more than 1000 unmanned missions.
The exact date was June 20, 1969 at 10:56 P.M. E.S.T.
On the 12th of April 1961
The first powered, manned aircraft was called the Wright Flyer. It was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright and first flew on December 17, 1903 at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.The name of the first heavier-than-aircraft was the 1903 Wright Flyer. The plane was designed and built by Orville and Wilbur Wright. The engine was designed and built by Charles E. Taylor. The aircraft is on display in the Smithsonian Museum of Flight in Washington DC.
The Space Shuttle was the first and only reusable manned vehicle to date, could land on a runway, haul astronauts and cargo at the same time, and service and construct space stations.
To date there have been 282 manned missions sent into space and more than 1000 unmanned missions.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin on 12 April 1961 became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the EarthSoviet Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, made the first flight into space on April 12, 1961.
The exact date was June 20, 1969 at 10:56 P.M. E.S.T.
The first manned landing was July 20, 1969.
As of now, the best-known and most historically important US space program would be the Apollo missions, from 1967 to 1972. Collectively, they produced the following milestones:The first manned orbit of the moon. (Apollo 10)The first men on the moon. (Apollo 11)The first manned vehicle on the moon. (Apollo 15)The last men on the moon to date. (Apollo 17)The most famous space disaster with a happy ending. (Apollo 13)What at the time was the most famous space-related disaster with a tragic ending. (Apollo 1, since superseded by the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters)
Bluford's first mission was STS-8, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on August 30, 1983. He became part of NASA in 1979 though.
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