X-15
Actually, while the X-15 WAS technically the first US craft to enter space (it flew higher than 50 statute miles on several occasions) it only carried one pilot. The first US spacecraft to carry more than one astronaut was Gemini 3, launched on March 23rd, 1965 and crewed by commander V. I. "Gus" Grissom and pilot John W. Young.
The name of the first American astronaut was Alan B.Shepherd.
It is called the Apollo spacecraft.
the answer is the space shuttle challenger
The first female astronaut was Valentina Tereshkova and she was from the Soviet Union.
Gemini 1 Actually it would be either Freedom 7 (Mercury) or Apollo 14. Alan Shepard never flew during the Gemini program. He was grounded at that time by an inner-ear condition called Meniere's Disease.
Astronaut is the term the US uses for a person who goes into space, cosmonaut is the Russian term.The first astronaut to fly into space was Alan Shepard, who flew the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 15-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. However, the first person to fly in space was Yuri Gagarin, who orbited the earth three times on April 12, 1961. Although this was 23 days before Shepard's flight, since Gagarin flew on Soviet spacecraft he was a cosmonaut, not an astronaut.
Alan Shepard flew in the Freedom 7 spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket
It is called the Apollo spacecraft.
On February 20, 1962, NASA astronaut John Glenn flew the Friendship 7 spacecraft becoming the third American in space and the first American to orbit the Earth circling the earth three times.
Yes Mariner 2 flew past Venus. It was the first space probe to achieve this.
Major Yuri Gagarin flew in the Russian spacecraft in 1961.
Asteroids are in space. The U.S. Apollo spacecraft flew in space.
USSR cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937) was the first woman in space. She flew the Vostok 6 spacecraft on a three-day flight, June 16-18, 1963.The first female American astronaut, and third woman in space, was Sally Kristen Ride, who flew aboard the space shuttle Challenger in June, 1983.
John Glenn orbited in Friendship-7 in 1962 .
Scott crossfield flew the first winged spacecraft. the spacecraft was called the x-5.
Anousheh Ansari, an Iranian-American woman, flew to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, staying at the ISS from September 18, 2006 to September 29, 2006.
the answer is the space shuttle challenger
Neil Armstrong went to space for the first time in the Gemini 8 spacecraft with David r. Scott. They flew on March 16 1966.