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.
The second manned space program was the Gemini program, conducted by NASA between 1961 and 1966. Gemini aimed to develop space travel techniques for missions to the Moon and later served as a bridge between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
The second man to travel into space was Gherman Titov, a Soviet cosmonaut who orbited the Earth multiple times aboard Vostok 2 in 1961.
The US responded to the USSR sending a man to space by increasing funding for their own space program, NASA, and accelerating their efforts to send a man to the moon. This led to the Apollo program and ultimately, the US successfully landing the first humans on the moon in 1969.
the space race
No, Buzz Aldrin was not the first man in space. The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut who orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961. Buzz Aldrin was the second person to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
The second manned space program was the Gemini program, conducted by NASA between 1961 and 1966. Gemini aimed to develop space travel techniques for missions to the Moon and later served as a bridge between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
The cast of The Space Between Us - 2003 includes: Heather Bird as Young woman - second to appear Erik Te Strake as Young man - first to appear
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
The United States of America. (The USSR had the first satellite and person, but the US go to the moon first)
The second man to travel into space was Gherman Titov, a Soviet cosmonaut who orbited the Earth multiple times aboard Vostok 2 in 1961.
He was the second man in the space (after Soviet Jurij Gagarin).
The US responded to the USSR sending a man to space by increasing funding for their own space program, NASA, and accelerating their efforts to send a man to the moon. This led to the Apollo program and ultimately, the US successfully landing the first humans on the moon in 1969.
the space race
Alan Shepard
John Glenn, this was his second space flight, however, post- Nasa he entered politics. Glenn, a Marine, was the first US astronaut to actually make an orbital flight- that of Shepherd and one other man were sub-orbital rocket missions. No, it was Jake Garn
Alan Shepard
the air force space command deals with all man made things in space. from sattellite spies to communications to protections from space.