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Apollo 8 was the first spacecraft to go around the moon and to return to earth. The astronauts were Frank Borman , James Lovell, and William Anders.
The first hp computer built in 1937.
I think it was the Mycenaeans who built the first Greek kingdoms
the first jewish temple was built in the times of king solomon
Launched by the Saturn 5 rocket (the largest rocket ever built), the first spacecraft to take men to the moon was the Apollo spacecraft.
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The First spacecraft was the MESSENGER. The First spacecraft was the MESSENGER.
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The first space probe to be built was the Soviet Union's Luna 1, launched on January 2, 1959. It was intended to investigate the Moon and became the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of another celestial body.
The Apollo spacecraft was built in the 1960s by NASA as part of the Apollo program, which aimed to land humans on the Moon and bring them back safely to Earth. The first crewed Apollo mission was Apollo 7 in 1968, and the last was Apollo 17 in 1972.
Galileo was the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter.
Humans have build a wide range of spacecraft in their voyage of space discovery, some manned and some not. A few of these include Vostok, the first manned spacecraft and the Colombia Orbiter which is considered a space plane.
The first successful rockets built to go into space were ICBMs: the Soviet Sputnik I & II were launched on military ICBMs, the US Mercury spacecraft were launched on military ICBMs (Redstone & Atlas), the US Gemini spacecraft were launched on military ICBMs (Titan II). IIRC, the Delta & Saturn rockets were the first successful rockets built to go into space that didn't begin as military ICBMs. Although most Deltas are launched from Vandenberg AFB. The European Arian was the first commercial rocket built to go into space.
The mariner spacecraft explored Mercury, Mars, and Venus. The first successful space probe and first spacecraft visit to a planet was Mariner 2.
The first spacecraft to land on the moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 in 1959. It was an unmanned spacecraft that crash-landed on the moon's surface.
The first maneuverable spacecraft was Vostok 1, launched by the Soviet Union in April 1961. It was piloted by Yuri Gagarin, who became the first human to travel into space. The spacecraft was controlled remotely from the ground rather than by the pilot.