The American Apollo Missions 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 were the later trips to the moon after the first one. Apollo 17, which happened in the 70's, was the last time humans have been to the moon.
Neil Armstrong (R.I.P.) is probably the most famous of America's astronauts, as he is credited with being the first human being in history to walk on the surface of the Earth's Moon.
The first selected Cosmonauts for the Soviet union were:Yuri GagarinValery BykovskyAndrian NikolayevPavel PopovichGherman TitovGrigori NelyubovThe first class of American Astronauts were the Mercury astronauts:Alan ShepherdGordon CooperScott CarpenterJohn GlennDeke SlaytonGus GrisomWally Schirra
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The first American to orbit the earth was astronaut John Glenn, the name of the spacecraft was a Mercury spacecraft. But it was called The Friendship 7.As there were 7 astronauts chosen in the first batch of astronauts.
Only the U.S. has landed astronauts on the moon. No Indian astronauts have yet walked on the lunar surface.
The Apollo Mission
The first song sung by American astronauts in outer space was "Jingle Bells." On December 16, 1965, astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford played a prank on mission control by singing the holiday tune during the Gemini 6 mission.
It was in a combined Apollo and soyuz space mission.
The American astronauts first landed on the moon, in a area called Tranquility base.
The names of the first lunar landing astronauts were Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin.
In July 1969, American astronauts landed on the moon.
Mercury
Apollo 3 was an unmanned test of the Saturn booster
There were 3 Apollo 14 astronauts. Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell landed on the moon and Stuart Roosa orbited it.
The first mission to land on the moon was Apollo 11, which took place on July 20, 1969. American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface during this historic mission.
On the 20th of July 1969 Neil Armstrong walked on the Moon, with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, becoming the first people to do so.
The first American astronauts to walk on the moon in 1969 were called Neil Amstrong and Buzz Aldrin.