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Featured Missions

• Mercury 3 (1961)

  The 1961 Mercury mission that made pilot Alan Shepard the first American in space, one of two manned suborbital missions at the start of NASA's programme of manned spaceflight.

• Mercury 4 (1961)

  NASA's second suborbital mission was a success until after splashdown, when the hatch blew unexpectedly, forcing pilot Gus Grissom to egress into the water as the capsule began to sink.

• Mercury 6 (1962)

  The 1962 Mercury mission that made pilot John Glenn the first American to reach Earth orbit, with three orbits before re-entry.

All Missions (in chronological order)

• Vostok 1 (1961)

  The first human space flight

• Mercury 3 (1961)

  First American manned mission

• Mercury 4 (1961)

  Second American manned mission

• Mercury 6 (1962)

  First American to reach earth orbit

• Gemini 3 (1965)

  First Gemini mission

• Apollo 11 (1969)

  First person to walk on the moon

• Apollo 13 (1970)

  A mission with a problem