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well this is not an invention but it happend in 1981! in 1981 the Space Shuttle is the first reusable spaceship.
The United States' own NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) launched Apollo 11, which became the first manned mission to go to and land on the moon. Links are provided.
The first seven American men in space were on the Mercury spaceship. This adventure took place on April 9, 1959. These men were, John Glen, Deke Slayton, Alan Shepard, Scott Carpenter, Gus Grissom, Scott Cooper, and Wally Shirra.
Man first landed on the Moon July 20, 1969.
RussiaRussian (Soviet). The Russian sent a woman into space in the 1960's. The USA was planning to send a woman into space in the 1960's, but, did not do so, because President LBJ ordered NASA not to. The USA would not send a woman into space until the 1980's.
In a spaceship.
The first spaceship was launched on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union sent Sputnik 1 into space. This event marked the beginning of the space age and opened the door to human exploration beyond Earth.
The first spaceship to be launched into space was Vostok 1, which was a Soviet spacecraft that carried Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space, in 1961.
The first U.S. spaceship in space was Freedom 7, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard on May 5, 1961. This suborbital flight made Shepard the first American to travel to space.
The first spaceship to do a soft landing on the moon was part of the Apollo Space program. The spaceship was not manned and did not have a name. This was in 1967.
Pedro Duque was the first astronaut in space.
Laika a dog was the first animal in space it was sent by the soviet union
The USSR sent the first animals into space.
Canada has never sent a Space Shuttle into space.
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Vostok 1.
Bill Maye's invented the "first" spaceship, although it has been known to scientists that people have been planning space flight for since the first Sputnik launches.