Yuri Gagarin First person in space
Alan Shepard First U.S. astronaut
John Glenn First American to orbit Earth
Valentina Tereshkova First woman in space
Virgil "Gus" Grissom One of the first astronauts in Project Gemini,
later killed in Apollo 1 test flight
Ed White First U.S. astronaut to walk in space,
also killed in Apollo 1
Neil Armstrong First person to walk on the moon
Edwin (Buzz) Aldren Also walked on the moon with Armstrong
Michael Collins Piloted spacecraft while first men on moon
James Lovell One of three astronauts on ill-fated Apollo 13
mission, chronicled in recent movie, Apollo 13
Sally Ride First U.S. woman in space
Guy Bluford First African-American in space
Ellison Onizuka First Asian-American in space, died in the
Challenger explosion
Rudolfo Vela-Neri First Hispanic in space
Christa McAuliffe Won contest to be first teacher in space,
also died in the Challenger explosion
Manned Flight: Robotic Flight:
Project Mercury Mariner missions
Project Gemini Pioneer missions
Project Apollo Viking missions
space shuttles Voyager missions
Galileo mission
Hubble Space Telescope
What were its objectives?
When did it occur?
How many missions did it have?
What were its most famous missions and why?
What did it accomplish?
Mercury? Venus? Mars? Jupiter? Saturn? Uranus? Neptune? Pluto? the sun? the moon? asteroids? Halley's Comet?What scientific information was gained on these missions?
note: Some of this material overlaps with Question 2, Robotic Flight; it's a different way to find out much of the same information.)