The first man made craft was the Russian craft Sputnik.
The first ever manned mission was done on April 12, 1961, by Yuri Gagarin (USSR).
The First EVER spacecraft was the unmanned Soviet Union's Luna 2. The Second and first MANNED mission was America's Apollo 11
Sputnik from Russia.
yes it was liaka it died on the first ever manned or we can say dogged mission 2 space by russia
The USSR's Vostok 1 was the first ever spacecraft to carry a man into space.
Skylab in 1973 was considered the first space station. It was a US mission that once docked with the Russian Syouz spacecraft.
yes but not a manned one
Luna-2 was the first craft to impact the moon (12 Sep 1959). Luna-9 accomplished the first soft landing on the moon (31 Jan 1966). Apollo 11 was the first manned craft to land on the moon (21 Jul 1969).
We know that the US has. We don't know whether the USSR ever did. If they did, they didn't announce them. None by the USSR were ever known.
Space Shuttles are designed only for Earth orbiting missions and none has ever gone to the moon. The first manned space craft to reach the moon (in 1969) was an Apollo program Lunar Lander called Eagle.
Yes, Dr. Richard M. Linnehan was a mission specialist on several manned space flights.
This question has an ever changing answer with manned missions occurring every few months or sometimes every few weeks between NASA and the Russian Space Agency. China also launched its first and only manned mission in 2003 and has announced additional missions.