I believe it was the Appolo Program. Hope i helped!
The first American space missions were called Mercury missions. These missions aimed to put astronauts into space, gather data on human spaceflight, and pave the way for more ambitious missions. The Mercury program ran from 1960 to 1963.
Project Mercury sent the first 6 Americans into space. They were all solo flights.
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The Mercury Program was the first manned space flight program,
The US space program that put astronauts on the moon was called the Apollo program.
The space program has not ended
The NASA Apollo program, specifically the Apollo 11 mission, put the first man on the moon on July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the lunar surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin.
The Apollo program sent astronauts to the Moon from 1968 to 1972, with the first landing made by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. No human has been to the Moon since 1972.
The first U.S. manned space program was called Project Mercury. It aimed to put a human in orbit around Earth and was active from 1958 to 1963.
The goal of the first manned space program started by NASA, Project Mercury, was to put an American astronaut into orbit around Earth and to gain experience in space travel. It aimed to test the feasibility of human spaceflight and pave the way for future missions to the Moon and beyond.
The first American object launched into space was the Explorer 1 satellite on January 31, 1958. It was the first satellite to be successfully put into orbit by the United States.