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Vostok 1
Yuri Gagarin was alone as the first human to enter space. The Soviet space program launched this space craft April 12, 1961 06:07 UTC. He landed April 12, 1961 07:53 UTC -
Freedom 7
The first American in space was Alan Shepard. Freedom 7 was launched with Alan aboard on May 5, 1961 14:34 UTC and landed May 5, 1961 14:49. Freedom 7 was launched by NASA. -
Vostok 6
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. She was on board Vostok 6 by herself for The Soviet Union to understand how a female's body reacts in space. -
Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong was the first human on the moon during his mission with Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., and Michael Collins. These men were the crew of Apollo 11 when they landed in the moon at 20:11:13.They arrived back on earth at July 24, 1969 16:50:35 UTC. -
Apollo 15
This mission was the 9th manned mission and the eighth successful mission; it was also the fourth mission for man to land on the moon. Aboard Apollo 15 were David Scott, James Irvin and Alfred Worden. The men arrived back on August 7, 1971 at 20:45:53 UTC. -
Mars 3
The Soviet Union beat the United States of America in a space race. They were the first to put a rover on Mars beating the United States of America. -
Apollo 17
Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt were all on this space on the 11th and final space mission in the American Apollo space program. On this mission the crew landed in the moon and set records like the longest manned lunar mission. The crew landed on December 19, 1972 at 19:24:59 UTC. -
STS-106
One of the most recent missions was this moon landing mission. Aboard were Scott Altmann, Ed Lu, Rick Mastracchi, Dan Burbank, Yuri Malenko, Terry Wilcutt and Boris Morovi. There was not just one but two space walks on their mission. They arrived back on September 19, 2000 at 3:56 am EDT.