Who was the last NASA Astronaut to fly solo in orbit? Gordon Cooper was the last astronaut to be launched solo on a rocket from earth into earth orbit on the mission Mercury Atlas (MA)-9 in 1963. He flew the last Mercury spacecraft to be placed in orbit, named "Faith 7". David Scott was the last astronaut to fly solo in Earth orbit on Apollo 9 in 1969. He flew the Command/Service Module named "Gumdrop". Ronald Evans was the last astronaut to fly solo in lunar orbit on Apollo 17 in 1972. He flew the Command/Service Module named "America". All subsequent orbital spaceflights have carried at least two astronauts (10 Gemini missions, first four Space Shuttle missions). A commercial rocket/spacecraft, Spaceship 1, was flown to the edge of space, an altitude of 112 km (60 miles) and zero velocity, and did not fly in orbit, by pilot Brian Binnie, in 2004.
Guion S. Bluford Jr was the first American black Astronaut to go into space. See related links below for his bio and a list of other black Astronauts.
The second American to fly into space was Gus Grissom. He was also the first American to make a second trip into space.
Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when she launched aboard the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She was not the pilot on this mission, but she went on to become the first woman to fly the space shuttle in 1984.
The first American to fly into space was Alan Shepard in 1961. Gus Grissom was the second American in space in 1961, and John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.
The space station does NOT fly. IT is in space and there is no are for it to fly in. The space station is in Earth Orbit moving at 7.66 kilometres per second.
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David Scott. He was also 7th person to walk on the moon and the 1st to drive on the moon.
Valery V Ryumin was the ninth and final Russian cosmonaut to fly to Mir on an American Space Shuttle. He flew on STS-91.
Most major American jetliners do fly into Russian air space.
It was Steve Fosset that flew across the world solo and to fly in Australia solo.
Lindbergh became an American idol because he was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean
Space Shuttle Discovery.
he was the first African American to fly in space
American aviatrix Harriet Quimby was the first woman to fly the Channel solo. She did this in a Bleriot monoplane in April 1912.
Charles A. Lindbergh was the first to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean.
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June 28, 2011. It will also be the last ever space shuttle mission.