The three phases of the space program were the early human spaceflight era, the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the era of international cooperation and exploration that followed.
The three main space programs developed for human space travel and moon missions are NASA (United States), Soviet space program (USSR), and the Apollo program (United States), which was a part of NASA focused specifically on landing astronauts on the moon.
The Constellation program will take over from the space shuttle. See the link below.The Space Shuttle will be replaced by the Ares rocket system. The Ares heavy-lift rocket has a bigger payload than the Shuttle,the Shuttle can lift about 22 tons into low earth orbit, the Ares can lift 188 tons in low earth orbit. The Ares payload bay is three times larger than the Shuttle's. Old-style rockets and splashdown recoveries might not be as cool as the Shuttle, but they're cheaper and can actually do more.As of this writing (December 2010) the three remaining Space Shuttles are scheduled to be retired shortly. For the past few years, the US NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration) has been planning a new manned-spaceflight system called Orion/Ares. Orion is the manned segment (like Apollo) and Ares is the launch vehicle (like Saturn).Very recently this fall, NASA has indicated that it may scrap plans for Orion/Ares.This would leave the US space program without its own manned space flight program.There are no more servicing missions to Hubble scheduled, so the need for manned flight is somewhat arbitrary at this point -- as there are only fleeting thoughts of returning to the Moon, or going to Mars with manned flight.Future US manned flight to, say the International Space Station, would be accomplished via Russian launch and manned flight systems.
-1st reusable manned spacecraft. -space program begins. -assassination attempt on president Reagan. -scanning tunnel microscope invented by gerd karl binning and heinrich rohrer -opening of the kennedy space center
The space program was Project Apollo, or the Apollo Program.
Each manned Mercury launch carried a single astronaut. Gemini ... two Apollo ... three Shuttle ... several
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The Apollo program was the US space program that successfully landed the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. Apollo program followed NASA's Mercury program, which put the first Americans in space.Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969. That mission had a crew of three: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.
The United States has two or three orbiting spacecraft in Mars orbits.
The name Apollo was given by N.A.S.A , it was their third manned spacecraft, Mercury was one manned craft, Gemini is named after the constalation Gemini , Twins as it was two man craft . Apollo would be three manned and they aimed to land on the moon, mind you this was way back in 1960.
Not yet; their space program is not quite that ambitious. They are sending a rover to Mars though for a three month mission. They anticipate sending it out in late 2020. They are also planning a manned Moon mission in 2036 or so.
No manned missions have gone farther away than the moon. If you mean space probes or satellites, I think three