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The Soviet Union was the first country to put a satellite in space on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
On May 5, 1961; The Freedom 7 rocket blasted off carrying the first American into space.
That was Sputnik
The first American object launched into space was the Explorer 1 satellite on January 31, 1958. It was the first satellite to be successfully put into orbit by the United States.
The Apollo program was the US space program that successfully landed the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. Apollo program followed NASA's Mercury program, which put the first Americans in space.Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969. That mission had a crew of three: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr.
Project Mercury sent the first 6 Americans into space. They were all solo flights.
Sputnik was the first man made satellite to be put in space by man. The whole World took their hats of to the innovators of this achievement. The Americans were infuriated that the Russians beat them to it.
the first program to send Americans into space was called "project mercury"
Yuri Gagarin was the first man (and first Russian) to be put in space.
Mercury was the name given to the first American space program.
No the USSR placed the first artificial satellite and first man in space before the United States.
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The Americans went first in space if manned it was in 1961 and Alan. B. Shepherd was the astronaut.
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I was very excited.
The Soviet Union was the first country to put a satellite in space on October 4, 1957, with the launch of Sputnik 1.
On May 5, 1961; The Freedom 7 rocket blasted off carrying the first American into space.