In what year was the first craft to orbit in another planet?

Answer 1

The first spacecraft to land on the moon was Russia's Luna 2 in September 1959. It was unmanned. On the 2nd of June 1966, Surveyor 1 became the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. It was also unmanned.

Answer 2

The unmanned Surveyor 1 (United States, 2 June 1966) was the first spacecraft to successfully soft-land on the moon. It used thrusters to slow its impact trajectory which shut off when the craft was 3.4 m (11 ft) above the surface, achieving a low velocity touchdown. The Soviet craft Luna 9 accomplished a hard-landing on the moon a few months earlier using an airbag to cushion its impact at 15 m/s (33 mph). Apollo 11 was the first manned soft landing on the moon in July 1969.

Answer 3

Bologna History:

The Lighter Side of History

(Which means some historical fact and a whole lot of bologna)

As the on and off again relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was just entering a particular frigid stage, it was Canada who very quietly and secretly developed the first known space program. That is to say, known to those in the know with super special top secret clearance. The rest of the world has never known...until now of the glorious and victorious ride to the moon of two brothers from the Great White North known as Bob and Doug McKenzie. These two hoser's were unknown heroes to the Canadaians and the world.

The Canadian space program actually began in the 1930's shortly after the signing of the Statute of Westminster where Canada had finally gained it's independence from the British Parliament. This combined with that whole Chanak crisis thing made Canada rethink its whole position on the world scene. It was decided that exploration and conquering space was in the best interest of Canada so on September 42nd of 1939 the Canadian Space Agency was created. The official history given for the CSA is that it was established in March of 1989 but that is just the official story. The truth of the matter is Canada had spent many years throughout the forties and part of the fifties developing their space program and when the Soviets launched Sputnik in space it was the Canadian astronauts Bob and Doug who shot that satellite down using nothing more than a case of Moosehead beer bottles.

Editors note:

All right you, that's enough!

What?

Why do you do this? You are mixing real historical facts with lies.

Am not!

Are too!

Nope.

Yep.

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Uh-huh. Okay, you know what? We are not going to argue with you the Society of Uptight and Really Really Serious Historians, (S.U.R.R.S.H.), are very upset about this there is much that needs to be sorted out in terms of fact from fiction. First of all, Canada did not start their space program in the 1930's. It was as the official story goes in 1989. Secondly, the Statute of Westminster and the Charnak Crisis are very real historical events but Bob and Doug McKenzie are fictional characters created by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.

Oh sure. That is what the Canadian government wants you to believe but the truth is out there and will come to light someday. Look, I am sorry that you guys don't have super special top secret clearance to super secret need to know for your eyes only clearance like I do but that's life. Just because I enjoy some privileges you guys don't doesn't mean you have to get all huffy about it. It was Bob and Doug McKenzie who first landed on the moon and it was Bob who said "One small step for man and one giant leap for hoser's"

Just tell the official story and quit bragging about your super special top secret clearance. We all know you got that from a cereal box of Cap n Crunch with that really cool decoder ring.

It is cool and you can't have it. I keep telling you that. All right then, I will tell the official story but I still say the people have a right to know. Also, I think your obvious attempt at product placement on these pages is shameful. I'm just saying....that's all.

In the 1950's there was an exhibit featured at Tomorrowland in Disneyland. The exhibit was a form of product placement for TWA then controlled by Howard Hughes and was called the TWA Moonliner. The structure was 80 feet tall and stood eight feet taller than the Sleeping Beauty Castle of Disneyland. As a part of the Moonliner structure there was an attraction called Flight to the Moon which years later became Mission to Mars. The rocket was designed by longtime Disney "Imagineer" John Hench who had help from rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. When Hughes left TWA the airliner pulled its sponorship and it was then the Douglas Aircraft Company who sponsored it and renamed the structure the Douglas Moonliner.

In the Soviet Union, even before the launching of Sputnik, there was a space program headed by Mikhail Tikhonravov who is known as the father of the Russian Moon Program. His work in jet propulsion and studies in packet rockets and satellite orbital motion, optimal pitch control programs for launching into space were essential to the Russian space program. He had become deputy chief of NI-4 of the Academy of Artillery Science in 1946 and a decade later in 1956 he was transferred with his team of scientists to his own bureau the OKB.

It was in 1958 that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ,(NASA),was created to begin the endeavor of launching a manned space program. Prior to NASA's creation all rocketry and propulsion research was done primarily by the Air Force, Navy and National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics but NASA took control in 1958. Unmanned missions began almost immediately and a manned program began in 1959 with the Mercury project. The Mercury Project was created with the goal of putting a human in orbit around the Earth and that goal was realized on the 20th of February of 1962. On the 5th of May it was Alan Sheppard who made the first suborbital mission into space with the Mercury Redstone-3. This was followed by Mercury Redstone-4 which was manned by Gus Grissom and was also a suborbital mission. It was John Glen who became the first American to orbit the Earth in Mercury Atlas-6 and made three orbits around the globe.

It was, however, Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union who holds the distinction of being the first human in space. It was the 12th of April in 1961 that the Soviet Cosmonaut was rocketed out into space becoming the first human to orbit the Earth. While the United States continued the race by attempting to reach the moon before the Russians it wasn't until July 20th of 1969 that goal was realized. After Project Mercury evolved into Project Gemini and that became the Apollo program, Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Micheal Collins and Buzz Aldrin, in Apollo 11, orbited the moon while Niel Armstrong descended to the moon and explored it's surface of more than two hours. It was after taking his first Step on the moon that Armstrong uttered the now famous words; "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." It was in the 1950's that this endeavor began, but it wasn't until the end of the sixties the mission was accomplished.

Editors note:

S.U.R.R.S.H. will confirm the veracity of the above account. It is a brief but accurate description of the space programs the began in the 1950's. S.U.R.R.S.H. would also like to add that, as it is with all historical accounts, this account only offers on perspective of a complex and much more detailed reality. It is recommended that the readers find other sources so the reader might discover a richer and fuller account of this particular and very important epoch in human history.

Answer 4

It all depends on what you mean by 'first'. Do you mean the first person or the first satelliteto orbit the earth?

If you mean the first satellite, than it was Sputnik. It was sent into orbit in 1957 by the Russians. When the Americans heard that the Russians had actually gotten a satellite in orbit around earth, they immediately constructed a 3 pound satellite that they called Americas response to Russia (however Russia's satellite was 3 tons). The satellite rose a few feet into the air and fell down and crashed. The Russians said they were sorry the Americans were having so much trouble.

If you mean the first person; that was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian. The Russians also beat the Americans to getting a Man in space in 1962, only five years after the first satellite was put into space.

Answer 5

The first spacecraft to orbit another planet was Mariner 9, which orbited Mars in 1971.

Answer 6

in 1962 did the first maned spacecraft orbit around the moon

Answer 7

The first craft to orbit in another planet was on November 14, 1971. It was the American Mariner 9 which was launched on May 30, 1971.

Answer 8

The first manned mission landed on July 20, 1969

Answer 9

July 20, 1969 (Neil Armstrong)

Answer 10

Sputnik. Warner Athey