Captain Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom
He was 2nd American into space behind Alan Shepard.
Yuri Gagarin was the first Human into space.
Alan Shepard was the first and second American to go to outer space.
The second American to fly into space was Gus Grissom. He was also the first American to make a second trip into space.
The second American maned space program was the two man spacecrafts called the Gemini.
John Glenn traveled to outer space twice, setting multiple records both times. On his first trip he became the first American to orbit the Earth, and on his second trip, while serving as a US Senator, he became the oldest person to travel to space.
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Alan Shepard was the first and second American to go to outer space.
Ronald Mcnair was the second African American to go into space.
As I recall, the programs ran in this order: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Space Shuttle, ISS .
The second American to fly into space was Gus Grissom. He was also the first American to make a second trip into space.
Alan Shepard
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.
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The second American maned space program was the two man spacecrafts called the Gemini.
John Glenn traveled to outer space twice, setting multiple records both times. On his first trip he became the first American to orbit the Earth, and on his second trip, while serving as a US Senator, he became the oldest person to travel to space.
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The second American in space was Virgil Grissom, on the 21st of July, 1961. This was the second American 'suborbital' flight, where true space was entered, but the pilot did not make a full orbit of the planet.