Started w/ X-1, which was the first plane ever to sound barrier, and was followed in 1956 w/ the X-2 'starbuster', which was the first to break mach 3. 1946
First manned U.S spaceflight program; involved 7 astronauts; made Alan Sherpard the first American in suborbital flight, one month after Yuri Gagarin had become the first person in 1959
Second manned US spaceflight program; its objective was to develope space travel technique in support of Apollo; perfected EVA and orbital maneuvers necessary for rendezvous and do 1962
Third manned US spaceflight program; equiped with three-man spacecreaft; dedicated to presidents JFK's goal of 'Landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth' by 1960's
first US space station; Damaged severely when entering orbit but was repaired in the first ever major EVA repair mission; Numerous scientific expierments were conducted including c 1973
First joint US-Soviet spaceflight; last flight of the Apollo spacecraft; its primary purpose was as a symbol of the policy of detente that the soviet and US were pursuing at the ti 1975
Collaborative space program/ Russia; involved American space shuttles visiting the Russian space station Mir; 'Phase One'; was intended to learn from Russian experience with long-d 1994
one of many human spaceflight program within NASA; The stated goals were to gain significant experience in operating away from Earth's environment, develop technologies needed for N/a
United States government's manned launch vehicle program; from 1981 to 2011; officially beginning in 1972;The winged Space Shuttle orbiter was launched vertically, usually carrying
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