Alan Shepard was the first and second American to go to outer space.
The space program that launched the first person into outer space was the Soviet program called Vostok. Yuri Gagarin was the first human to go into space aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.
Mercury was the name given to the first American space program.
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.
Alan Shepard
Mercury.
As I recall, the programs ran in this order: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, ISS .
Alan b. shepared
The Mercury Program was the first manned space flight program,
mercury
he was the very first african american in space
Mercury was the name of the first American Space program started by NASA. The goals were to see if humans can go to space and function normaly.