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Who was the first African American male to achieve world ranking?
arthur ashe
First African American tennis player to achieve a world ranking?
Althea Gibson.
Why is the wright flyer considered revolutionary?
It was the first powered airplane to achieve sustained flight--as opposed to lifting off the ground and immediately landing, it flew for nine seconds on its first sustained flight. Nine seconds is nothing in 2009, but in 1903 when it had never been done before, it was amazing.
What type of plane was united airline flight 175 on 9-11?
United Airlines Flight 175 was a Boeing 767-223, The same aircraft as the first plane who hit the north tower of the WTC, which was American Airlines Flight 11.
Who made First flight US to Australia?
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, Australians, and two American navigators, Harry W. Lyon and James Warner, made the first U.S.-Australia Flight
Who was the first American to make a suborbital flight in 1961?
Alan Sheppard.
Who accomplished the first US suborbital flight?
Alan Shepherd
How long did the first suborbital flight last?
It lasted 3 seconds
Who was the first American to go into suborbital flight and which rockets was used?
The first animal to make a suborbital space flight from American soil was Albert, a rhesus monkey. He flew on a V2 rocket and suffocated on his way. Another monkey named Albert II made a successful journey, but died from impact on its return. The first Human American that made a sub orbital flight was Alan Shepard in May 5, 1961, who later Commanded Apollo 14. He flew in a Redstone rocket during his sub-orbital flight.
How long did the first U.S. manned suborbital space flight last?
10 minutes
The first American to orbit the earth flew in this spacecraft?
John Glenn made America's first orbital flight on February 20,1962. The Russians beat us to it, but John Glenn was the first astronaut.
Who were the first astronauts and what were accomplishments?
The first astronaut was Alan . B. Shepherd, his was a suborbital flight. John glenn made three orbits of the earth.
Who was the second person to achieve flight?
Nobody knows for sure who was even the FIRST to achieve flight.
Was Apollo 2 a test?
Yes. it was the first unmanned flight of Saturn IB and Block I CSM. The flight ws suborbital to Atlantic ocean and was also used to qualify the heat shield to orbital reentry speed
Who was the first rabbit in space?
In the USSR, Marfusa the rabbit was aboard a suborbital rocket flight on July 2, 1959, and reached an altitude of 132 miles (212 km).
When was the first us suborbital space flight?
There were several unmanned rocket and missile tests that were "suborbital" as early as 1957, pushing payloads into high altitudes. Later tests lofted monkeys and chimps briefly into space. The first MANNED suborbital flight for the US was the Freedom 7 capsule piloted by US Navy CDR Alan B. Shepard (1923-1998) on May 5, 1961. The Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket did not provide the necessary thrust for Shepard to achieve a complete orbit of the Earth, as the USSR's Yuri Gagarin had done three weeks earlier. CDR Shepard (later RADM) had one other space "first". Commanding the Apollo 14 lunar mission ten years later in 1971, he was the first person to ever hit a golf ball on the moon.
Less than a month after the Russians sent the first man into space the us sent 115 miles into space during a fifteen minute suborbital flight?
John Glenn.
