Norman Thagard
The name of the first Russian spacecraft was Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957.
Apollo is the name of the American spacecraft and Soyuz is the name of the Russian spacecraft.
sputnik 1
Roberta Bondar was the First North American woman to pilot a spacecraft
"The first rocket was the Sputnik...." Here we go again... NO It Wasn't! The first Spacecraft with a human to go into space was the Russian Satellite called 'Vostok', or 'Vostok 3KA'. 'Sputink', is the Russian word for 'Satellite', it was NOT the Name of the spacecraft. imagine if every Russian called 'Apollo 18' ... 'Satilite' with a heavy russian accent... DRrr Not. It Also was not the first spacecraft! the Russians launched a bunch of Dogs and crap up there first... there were many spacecrafts that went up before 'Vostok'.
Surveyor 1 was the first American spacecraft on the moon. It landed in 1966
venus was the first planet visited by the American spacecraft
Some of the Russian space crafts are Soyuz, Progress, and Vostok. Soyuz is used for crewed missions to the International Space Station, Progress is an unmanned cargo spacecraft, and Vostok was the spacecraft that carried the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space.
The Russian vehicle Luna 2 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
The Russians have never landed on the moon
The first Russian spacecraft in space was Sputnik 1, which was launched on October 4, 1957. It was the world's first artificial satellite and marked the beginning of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The Russian spacecraft the first by man was called the sputnik.