For the US, it was Mercury-Redstone 3 (piloted by Alan Shepard). For the USSR it was Vostok 1 (piloted by Yuri Gagarin)
The space mission was called The Apollo11.
The mission to the moon was called the Apollo mission.
When you cancel a space mission it's called aborting the mission. It is necessary if a shuttle dysfunction is suspected.
The first American woman to complete a space mission was Sally Ride, who flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-7 in 1983. Ride became the first American woman in space on this mission.
Sally Ride's first mission was STS-7, which was launched on June 18, 1983. She became the first American woman to fly in space as a crew member on the Space Shuttle Challenger.
The last space shuttle mission was STS-135
The first shuttle launch was April 12, 1981. It was called STS-1
The first manned mission to space was called Vostok 1 and was launched by the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961. It carried cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit around the Earth, making him the first human to travel to space.
It was designed to fly in space, and its first mission was another test of the space shuttle.
India will launch its first manned space mission in 2016 in a bid to match space pioneers such as Russia and the United States
The first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched on April 12, 1981.
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