"The first rocket was the Sputnik...."
Here we go again... NO It Wasn't! The first Spacecraft with a human to go into space was the Russian Satellite called 'Vostok', or 'Vostok 3KA'.
'Sputink', is the Russian word for 'Satellite', it was NOT the Name of the spacecraft.
imagine if every Russian called 'Apollo 18' ... 'Satilite' with a heavy russian accent... DRrr Not.
It Also was not the first spacecraft! the Russians launched a bunch of Dogs and crap up there first... there were many spacecrafts that went up before 'Vostok'.
The First spacecraft was the MESSENGER. The First spacecraft was the MESSENGER.
Galileo was the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter.
NASA's Pioneer 10 spacecraft.
The first spacecraft to observe Venus was the Venera 3 in 1962.
The first spacecraft on the moon was called Eagle. After the Jules verne spacecraft.
The first spacecraft was named "Sputnik" and was launched by the Russians in 1957.
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The first US manned spacecraft was named Mercury.
The name of the first Russian spacecraft was Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957.
The name of the US spacecraft that first landed on the moon was Apollo 11.
The Space Shuttle
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