Rakesh Sharma is the first Indian to go to space in the Soyuz T-10 capsule.(now displayed at Nehru Planetarium . delhi)
No. Dr. Mae Jemison is a physician and the first African-American female astronaut in space. She served aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, launched September 12, 1992.
The Americans went first in space if manned it was in 1961 and Alan. B. Shepherd was the astronaut.
Senator Jake Garn was the first sitting member of the US congress to go into space.
John Glenn (born July 18, 1921, in Cambridge, Ohio), a decorated US Marine Corps pilot, flew the first US orbital mission, completing three orbits of the Earth in his space capsule, "Friendship 7" , on February 20, 1962. He was the third American in space, following sub-orbital flights by Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom.Later he served as a United States Senator from Ohio (1974 - 1999).In 1998 he returned to space at the age of 77 on the Space Shuttle Discovery(STS-95), becoming the oldest man ever to go in space. This was an 'experiment' to test the effects of going into space on an aging person.
Space Shuttle Columbia
The US's first space shuttle was called Columbia. It was part of NASA's Space Shuttle Program and completed its first orbital flight on April 12, 1981.
The first US space shuttle, Columbia, was built in the 1970s and the space shuttle program began in 1981 with the launch of Columbia.
Space Shuttle.
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The Space Shuttle was the first US spacecraft built to accommodate more than 3 astronauts. After the retirement of the Space Shuttle, most cargo is carried to the ISS by unmanned rockets.
The Space Shuttle Columbia was the first US space shuttle. Columbia took its maiden voyage in 1981. In 2003, Columbia was destroyed during re-entry, which resulted in the death of its entire crew.
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The US space shuttle Challenger exploded on January 28, 1986.
i believe they lunched in 1968, with astronaut food!
None. The space shuttle is not capable of going to the moon. The only manned spacecraft to go to the moon were the lunar landers of the Apollo missions, which took place before the first space shuttle was built.
The US Space Shuttle program retired in 2011 after the final mission of Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-135) in July of that year.