Roberta Bondar was the First North American woman to pilot a spacecraft
Darwin Hudson
A space pilot operates spacecraft to navigate through space, launch and land vehicles, and communicate with mission control. They are responsible for ensuring the safety of the crew and the success of the mission.
Surveyor 1 was the first American spacecraft on the moon. It landed in 1966
venus was the first planet visited by the American spacecraft
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.
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The Indian pilot Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to fly in space in Russian spacecraft.
X-15 Actually, while the X-15 WAS technically the first US craft to enter space (it flew higher than 50 statute miles on several occasions) it only carried one pilot. The first US spacecraft to carry more than one astronaut was Gemini 3, launched on March 23rd, 1965 and crewed by commander V. I. "Gus" Grissom and pilot John W. Young.
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Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, was the first human to pilot a spacecraft, Vostok 1, on April 12, 1961. He made a single orbit around the Earth before safely returning.
The first American spacecraft to reach the moon's surface was the Ranger 4 spacecraft. It crash-landed on the moon in 1962 after a failed mission to take high-resolution photographs of the lunar surface.
It was the surveyor spacecraft.