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).
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to ever go into space. He was a Russian cosmonaut.
Dennis Tito went into space on April 28, 2001, as a space tourist aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He spent about 8 days on the International Space Station as the first-ever paying space tourist.
because "sputnik" means "fellow traveler of earth"
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 first ever manned mission was done on April 12, 1961, by Yuri Gagarin (USSR).
Launched by the Saturn 5 rocket (the largest rocket ever built), the first spacecraft to take men to the moon was the Apollo spacecraft.