The first space mission to space was made by the USSR. The name of the mission was Vostok-1, on the craft Kedr (cedar in English), on April 12, 1961, piloted by Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
If you are wondering about the first American mission to space, it was Mercury-3. The ship was called Freedom 7, it was launched on May 5, 1961, piloted by Alan B. Shepard Jr.
The first man on the Moon was Neil Armstrong. He was sent to the Moon because the Russians had already sent a man into space and America wanted to beat them so they sent a manned mission to the Moon.
The first chimpanzee launched into outer space was named Ham. He was sent into space by NASA in 1961 aboard the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission to test the effects of space travel on a living organism.
there were two main spacecrafts the voyager 1 and the voyager 2 that flew to Jupiter and in to deep space. It was in 1979.
No. We have sent space probes to Saturn, but a manned mission is not possible with today's technology and likely will not be possible within the lifetime of anyone alive today.
Two spacecraft have been sent to Mercury: Mariner 10 in 1974 and MESSENGER in 2004. MESSENGER orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015, providing valuable data on the planet's geology, magnetosphere, and surface composition. The European Space Agency's BepiColombo mission, launched in 2018, is currently en route to Mercury and is expected to arrive in 2025.
The first fish in space was a south American guppy in 1976
The first woman in space was Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, a Soviet cosmonaut. She was on the Vostok 5 mission which launched on June 16, 1963. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride. She was on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-7 in 1983.
Columbia was on its 28th mission when it disintegrated during re-entry in 2003. Its first mission was the first by a space shuttle into space.
Mercury.
The first dog sent into space was Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, sent by the Soviet Union in 1957. Laika was part of a mission to test conditions in space and the effects of space travel on living organisms. Unfortunately, she did not survive the mission.
The first space shuttle sent into outer space was the Space Shuttle Columbia. It was launched on April 12, 1981, as part of the STS-1 mission.
Apollo 1 was the first manned mission in the Apollo program, launched in February 21, 1967. It never reached space.The first Apollo mission to actually reach space was the Apollo 7 mission.
On 5 May, 1961 Alan Shepherd was launched on a sub-orbital flight into space aboard Freedom 7, the first manned mission of Project Mercury.
The first dual mission in space started in 1963, space craft: Vostock 5-6 sent by the USSR
Well the first american in space was alan sheaperd, john glenn was first to orbit earth tho.
valentina tereskhova,a russian.and the spacecraft is vostok 6
Laika, a Soviet space dog, was sent into space in 1957 as part of the Sputnik 2 mission to study the effects of space travel on living beings. She was one of the first animals to orbit Earth. The mission provided valuable data for future human space travel endeavors.