Ed White
Edward Higgins White
Alan Shepard was the first US astronaut and the second person in space.
Neil Armstrong
The First American to perform a space walk was Ed White.
John Glenn (1921-2016) was a Marine fighter pilot, a test pilot, an astronaut, and a US Senator from Ohio. He was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth (1962) and the oldest astronaut to fly in space (Space Shuttle 1998, age 77).
1965. The astronaut was Edward Higgins White II and the flight was Gemini 4.
Edward Higgins White
Alan Shepard was the first US astronaut and the second person in space.
Neil Armstrong
The First American to perform a space walk was Ed White.
The Americans went first in space if manned it was in 1961 and Alan. B. Shepherd was the astronaut.
i believe they lunched in 1968, with astronaut food!
While John Glenn is usually given credit, as he was the first American to orbit the Earth, the first in space was actually Alan Shepard Jr. (1923-1998). Shepard, a US Navy pilot, became the first US astronaut in space on May 5, 1961, followed by fellow astronaut Gus Grissom on July 21. These were both sub-orbital flights of approximately 15 minutes each. John Glenn became the first US astronaut in orbit, making three orbits on February 20, 1962.The first "man in space" was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968), on April 12, 1961.
Well, Neil Armstrong was the first to go on the moon.
Actually the first US astronaut in space (Alan Shepard) did NOT orbit--he only had a 15-minute sub-orbital flight. The first US astronaut to orbit Earth was John Glenn. In any event, neither of them could have gone to the moon because at that time we simply did not have the technology to send them there.
John Glenn (1921-2016) was a Marine fighter pilot, a test pilot, an astronaut, and a US Senator from Ohio. He was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth (1962) and the oldest astronaut to fly in space (Space Shuttle 1998, age 77).
An astronaut.