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It was the Russian spacecraft, a unmanned one called Luna 2.
The six names of US space shuttles are: * Enterprise * Columbia (lost in 2003) * Challenger (lost in 1986) * Discovery * Atlantis * Endeavour The space shuttle generally refers to the American NASA spacecraft also called Space Transportation System (STS) and is the current U.S. manned spacecraft vehicle. The Russians did make one "shuttle" called Buran, although it had only one (unmanned) space flight in 1988 and destroyed in 2002.
Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
The Sputnik program was a series of robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union. The first of these, Sputnik 1, launched the first human-made object to orbit the Earth.
A reusable spacecraft
It was the Russian spacecraft, a unmanned one called Luna 2.
It was the unmanned spacecraft called Surveyor 1 in 1966.
Apollo 11 was launched from Cape Kennedy where all their spacecrafts are launched from. It was called Cape Carneval before.
It was called Cape Kennedy in Florida.
There were no spacecraft named Apollo 2 or 3 Sometimes one of the unmanned test missions is erroneously called Apollo 3. This was the AS202 mission which tested the command and service modules in suborbital flight. This was launched on August 26th 1966.
The first manned flight to the moon was on an Apollo spacecraft launched by America.
The six names of US space shuttles are: * Enterprise * Columbia (lost in 2003) * Challenger (lost in 1986) * Discovery * Atlantis * Endeavour The space shuttle generally refers to the American NASA spacecraft also called Space Transportation System (STS) and is the current U.S. manned spacecraft vehicle. The Russians did make one "shuttle" called Buran, although it had only one (unmanned) space flight in 1988 and destroyed in 2002.
The USSR (now called Russia) sent the first unmanned and manned satellites into earth orbit.
Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
The Sputnik program was a series of robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union. The first of these, Sputnik 1, launched the first human-made object to orbit the Earth.
In 1957. The unusual thing was that it carried the first living thing into orbit, a dog called laika.
The Phoenix mission was launched in August 2007. Its goal is to look for traces of water on Mars and to prepare from possible future manned missions. See the Web Links to the left for more information. If you follow the link called 'Where Is Phoenix?' you can track its progress.