The Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 1
Some may say Sputnik, but that isn't true, the US space program was already in place. Germans developed rockets for war purposes during WW2 and some of their scientists 'defected' to the US after the war, again not the real beginning. In the 1920's or 30's Robert Goddard pioneered rocketry, and he was an American, still this may not be it. Jules Vern wrote a book or short story about a trip to the moon, Science Fiction but this got people like Goddard started thinking about space travel. That gets my vote.
Soviet Space Program/ your face
This reform was a reaction to the space program of the Soviet Union
1963
Sputnik 1
The first flight for the Space Shuttle program took place on April 12, 1981, though the program officially began in 1972. There were 135 flights that took place before the program ended in 2011.
One important event in 1981 was the launch of the space shuttle Columbia, which marked the beginning of the Space Shuttle program. Additionally, the first reported cases of AIDS were documented in 1981, marking the beginning of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The space program was Project Apollo, or the Apollo Program.
The Geminii program
The Sputnik program started on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite. This event marked the beginning of the space age and initiated the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
there was 2 .. launching to get to the international space station up in space
Mercury was the name given to the first American space program.
The US space program has sent numerous animals into space,
Mercury.
The Apollo Space program.
Gemini
Mercury
Gemini