On 12th April 1961, The Soviet Union won the space race with the USA to get the first human in space when Yuri Gagarin was launched into orbit around the Earth in Vostok 1.
NASA then sent the first men to the moon in 1969, when Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The Apollo 11 crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin.
A program by JFK to get The Americans to space or to the moon!
The focus of the Apollo program was just the Moon and getting there and back. Now the focus of the Space program is to build a viable permanent base in space, with a view to deep space exploration.
Civilian Conservation Corps. was a federal program initiated by FDR during the Great Depression in an effort to put more men to work. The CCC did a lot of work in National Parks.
Yes. Mexico started a space committee back in 2007, it wasn't really a space program, it was more of planning the costs of establishing a space program. In July 30, 2010 Mexico successfully founded their first space program. However, this space program is one of the youngest in the world so it hasn't been able to do much yet. They have Astronauts and some Rockets capable of launching.
The space program launched by JFK was called the Apollo program. It aimed to land astronauts on the moon and bring them safely back to Earth. The most famous mission of the Apollo program was Apollo 11 in 1969, when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon.
Soviet Space Program
The US space program that put astronauts on the moon was called the Apollo program.
The space program has not ended
The Gemini program launched 2 men at a time and was to test out working in space. The Mercury program was 1 man at a time and was designed to get men into space. The Apollo program was 3 men at a time as was for landing on the moon.
The NASA Apollo program, specifically the Apollo 11 mission, put the first man on the moon on July 20, 1969. Astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the lunar surface, followed by Buzz Aldrin.
Apollo was the name of the U.S. program that put men on the moon between 1969 and 1972. Space vehicles and other space exploration equipment were created for this purpose.
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NASA
The US Apollo program.
The Apollo program, run by NASA, successfully landed a total of 12 men on the moon between 1969 and 1972. This program included iconic missions such as Apollo 11, which marked the first manned landing on the moon by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
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