New Hampshire native Alan B. Shepard.
Manned space flight is a voyage into space with a human passenger on board.
Humans have build a wide range of spacecraft in their voyage of space discovery, some manned and some not. A few of these include Vostok, the first manned spacecraft and the Colombia Orbiter which is considered a space plane.
The first manned space flight was by the U.s.s,R in the Sputnik.
The first manned space station was Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union in April 1971.
The first space vessel was manned by Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, in 1961. He became the first human to journey into outer space and orbit the Earth aboard Vostok 1.
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The Mercury Program was the first manned space flight program,
On May 5 1961 Mercury 3 took Alan Shepard to space making it America's first manned space flight
The first manned crew to spend Christmas in space was during the Apollo 8 mission. They were the first humans to see the dark side of the moon.
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Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut of the USSR (Soviet Union, now Russia) completed the first manned orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961. He was the "first man in space".