The First EVER spacecraft was the unmanned Soviet Union's Luna 2. The Second and first MANNED mission was America's Apollo 11
they were the first 2 astronauts to be launched in the 1st Gemini Spacecraft!
The USSR's Vostok 1 was the first ever spacecraft to carry a man into space.
The first man made craft was the Russian craft Sputnik.
Skylab in 1973 was considered the first space station. It was a US mission that once docked with the Russian Syouz spacecraft.
The biggest (and heaviest) spacecraft ever built is the International Space Station, which is still not quite complete (July 2011).
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Launched by the Saturn 5 rocket (the largest rocket ever built), the first spacecraft to take men to the moon was the Apollo spacecraft.
Unfortunately, no one has ever visited Neptune as we currently lack the technology to venture out that far into space. Did you know that the Voyager 2 was the first and only spacecraft to ever visit the planet?
No, but a space probe called New Horizons is on its way for a flyby.
Yes. Apollo 11 was the first Apollo mission to successfully land on the moon, but it was not the first ever US spacecraft to land on the moon, though it was the first spacecraft to successfully carry people to the moon.
The second astronaut, and first American in Space, was Alan B. Shepard, Jr. His flight was May 5, 1961.