Alan Shepard
Edward White became the first American to walk in space on June 3, 1965.
Dennis Tito
No. On May 5, 1961, Mercury Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to go into space.But he is the oldest man ti go into space and he orbited earth 3 times in 4 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds
Ronald Reagan was president when Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983.
Guion "guy" Bluford Junior became the first African American in space on August 30,1983
The first American to fly into space was Alan Shepard in 1961. Gus Grissom was the second American in space in 1961, and John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
The first American woman to complete a space mission was Sally Ride, who flew on the Space Shuttle Challenger mission STS-7 in 1983. Ride became the first American woman in space on this mission.
On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard, Jr. became the first American in space. He was born in Derry, New Hampshire, in the United States.
Alan Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961.
A Russian named Yuri Gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth. Alan Shepard was the first American in space and the second person to travel into space.
No, John Glenn was not the first man in space. The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, who orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962.