the first program to send Americans into space was called "project mercury"
Project Mercury sent the first 6 Americans into space. They were all solo flights.
YALL all idiots its mercury.
The United States was in the Space Race with Russia. Russia sent its first man in space first, but the United States retaliated and sent Neil Armstrong to the moon, making him the first man on the moon.
Laika a dog was the first animal in space it was sent by the soviet union
The USSR sent the first animals into space.
No. He made the rockets that sent Americans to space
Canada has never sent a Space Shuttle into space.
The first thing sent into outer space was a satellite
John F. Kennedy was the President on May 5, 1961 when astronaut Alan Shepherd was launched into a sub-orbital space flight.
Russia
Columbia was the first space shuttle sent into space on April 12, 1981, exactly 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.