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Featured Missions

• 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.

• Mercury 7 (1962)

  Beyond a repeat of Mercury 6, an important flight packed with science experiments, which allowed pilot Scott Carpenter to solve Glenn's "firefly" mystery.

• Gemini 3 (1965)

  The mission that performed the first orbital maneuvers by a manned spacecraft, and which was the first manned flight of the Gemini spacecraft.

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

• Mercury 7 (1962)

  Second American orbital mission

• Gemini 3 (1965)

  First Gemini mission

• Apollo 11 (1969)

  First person to walk on the moon

• Apollo 13 (1970)

  A mission with a problem