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It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury. The project had the ultimate objective of putting an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and returning him safely. Shepard's mission was a 15-minute suborbital flight with the primary objective of demonstrating his ability to withstand the high g-forces of launch and atmospheric re-entry. [1]
Chimpanzee Ham, who flew America's first suborbital space flight on Jan. 31, 1961, toasts NASA's anniversary by sampling a Skylab space drink on Oct. 01, 1973 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.
Alan Shepard became the first American in space on a suborbital flight three weeks later, on May 5, 1961. [138] John Glenn, the third Mercury astronaut to fly, became the first American to reach orbit on February 20, 1962, but only after the Soviets had launched a second cosmonaut, Gherman Titov, into a day-long flight in August 1961. [220]
Engle's third and last spaceflight, and final flight with X-15 program. First spaceflight of the X-15-1. — William H. Dana: 1 November 1966 X-15 Flight 174: Dana's first spaceflight. — William J. Knight: 17 October 1967 X-15 Flight 190: Knight's only spaceflight. Last successful flight of the X-15-3. — Michael J. Adams: 15 November 1967 X ...
First crewed sub-orbital spaceflight, first American in space 2 1961-07-21 Mercury-Redstone 4: Virgil Grissom United States: Second crewed sub-orbital spaceflight, second American in space 3 1963-07-19 X-15 Flight 90: Joseph A. Walker United States: First winged craft in space 4 1963-08-22 X-15 Flight 91: Joseph A. Walker United States
Flight 62 of the North American X-15 was a sub-orbital spaceflight conducted by NASA and the US Air Force on 17 July 1962. The X-15 was piloted by astronaut Robert Michael White to an altitude of 95.9 km (59.6 mi) surpassing the U.S. definition of space. Thus it became the first spaceflight of a spaceplane and a reusable spacecraft.
The Rutan-designed spacecraft won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for the achievement, after carrying three people into a suborbital spaceflight, the National Air and Space Museum said.
Ham (July 1957 – January 19, 1983), a chimpanzee also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was the first great ape launched into space.On January 31, 1961, Ham flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury.