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.
Colonel Guion Bluford was the first black astronaut to orbit the earth; this occurred in 1983. The first black female astronaut was Dr. Mae Jemison, in 1992.
Astronaut Alan .B.Shepherd was the first American astronaut to go in space. He did a sub orbit of the earth in his Mercury spacecraft. He was the Apollo 14 commander.
Mae Jemsion was the first African American who went into space.
The Americans went first in space if manned it was in 1961 and Alan. B. Shepherd was the astronaut.
Guion S. Bluford Jr. was the first African American to go into space when flew on the Challenger space shuttle in 1983.
Alan sheperd was the first astronaut in space.
the first American astronaut to go into space was Alan B. Shepard Jr.
She was the first woman astronaut!
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. was chosen as an astronaut in 1967, but died in an automobile accident before he had the chance to go into space. The first African-American astronaut who did get into space was Colonel Guion Bluford in 1983. The first black woman astronaut was Dr. Mae Jemison, in 1992.
She was the first black woman to go to space.
The first African American to go into space was Guion Bluford, who flew aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger on August 30, 1983. Bluford's mission made him the first African American astronaut to travel to space.
On May 5, 1961, Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first American Astronaut to leave the earth's atmosphere. Also Neil Armstrong was part of Apollo 11.
The first American astronaut to walk or float in space, was the late astronaut Edward H.White.
Dr. Ride was the first female American astronaut to go into space.
Colonel Guion Bluford was the first black astronaut to orbit the earth; this occurred in 1983. The first black female astronaut was Dr. Mae Jemison, in 1992.
Mae C Jemison is a famous American astronaut who became the first African American woman to go to space when she flew on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992. She is also a physician and engineer, known for her groundbreaking achievements in space exploration.
Kalpana Chawla was the Indo-American woman astronaut on board the space shuttle Atlantis. She was the first woman of Indian descent to go to space and tragically lost her life during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.