Mercury was the name given to the first American space program.
Mercury was the name of the first American Space program started by NASA. The goals were to see if humans can go to space and function normaly.
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The name of the first American satellite in space was called Explorer 1.
The Russian space program in the 1960s was known as the Soviet space program. It was responsible for significant achievements such as launching the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, and sending the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
The Mercury Program was the first manned space flight program,
The Apollo missions each carried three astronauts.
The name of the Space Capsule that carried the first American to space was "Freedom 7." It was piloted by Alan Shepard on May 5, 1961.
The early space program was named the "Mercury Program," which was NASA's first human spaceflight program. The program aimed to launch astronauts into Earth's orbit and was active from 1958 to 1963.
The space program that launched the first person into outer space was the Soviet program called Vostok. Yuri Gagarin was the first human to go into space aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.
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