The Gemini capsule, it was needed mostly to manage rendezvous and docking maneuvers and precision reentry for a preselected landing site.
The earlier Mercury capsule was controlled by IBM 7090 computers on the ground via radio commands.
The first manned flight to the moon was on an Apollo spacecraft launched by America.
It was the Apollo 8 spacecraft.
The first manned space flight took place in 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
The Soviet Union achieved the first manned space flight on April 12, 1961, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbiting the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
The first US manned spacecraft was named Mercury.
The first man to attempt manned rocket flight was Yuri Gagarin. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
The first international manned space flight occurred on July 17, 1975, when the United States Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docked in orbit. The mission was known as the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) and marked the beginning of international cooperation in space exploration.
The first manned spacecraft to orbit the moon was Apollo 8, which launched on December 21, 1968. It was the second manned mission in the Apollo program and made ten orbits around the moon before returning safely to Earth.
The first manned spaceflight was made by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1. Gagarin's historic flight made him the first human to travel into space and orbit the Earth.
Soyus 28, a two man spacecraft originating out of the Soviet Union, was the first international manned spaceflight. Crew members were from Russia (Aleksey Gubarev) and Czechoslovakia (Vladimir Remek), and the launch was in June, 1978, and ended September, 1978.
The first U.S. manned spacecraft was called Mercury. It was part of NASA's Mercury program, which aimed to send humans into space and safely return them. The first successful crewed flight took place on May 5, 1961, when astronaut Alan Shepard flew aboard the Mercury spacecraft named Freedom 7.
Alan Shepard was the first American to travel into space on May 5, 1961, aboard the Freedom 7 spacecraft.