What was the name of the first independent space flight craft and who was the pilot?
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Scaled Composites Model 316 SpaceShipOne. Piloted by Mike Melvill.\n\nEdit: The Millennium Falcon is not real, it's a movie space ship.
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Niel Armstrong. Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first but Armstrong was closest to the door.
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These three were early directors within NASA:\n\nDr. Robert Rowe Gilruth was an aerospace scientist, engineer, and a pioneer of the American space program during the glory days of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo.\n\nDuring his forty-year career with NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Dr. Gilruth led many of the nation’s leading flight research and human space flight operations.\n\nIn 1961, Dr. Gilruth was named director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC), in Houston, TX. That complex would later become known as the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.\n--------\nChristopher Columbus Kraft, Jr. (born February 28, 1924) was the first NASA flight director .\n\nHe began his career as an aeronautical engineer with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. When NACA became NASA in the late 1950s, he was put in charge of flight control for Project Mercury, where he was responsible for developing the technology and procedures for what became known as the Mission Control Center. He was the director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center from January 1972 to August 1982.\n------------\nEugene F. "Gene" Kranz (17 August 1933–) is a retired NASA flight director and manager. Kranz, who served as a flight director during Project Gemini and Project Apollo, is known for his trademark flattop hairstyle and the wearing of vests of different styles and materials whenever his "White Team" was on duty during missions, but is best known for his role in saving the crew of Apollo 13.
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The Mercury Program was first, testing the ability of humans to operate complex machines in space.  Then came the Gemini Program, which tested how two spaceships could rendezvous (come together and dock) and how astronauts could perform spacewalks, both important for landing on the moon.  The Apollo program was next, which after a ground failure and four successful non-moon-landing flights, landed on the moon in 1969.\nThere is another answer to this question, since you're looking for the first stage in THE space program to send Americans to the moon.  There is currently a program called "Constellation", or simply "Exploration", whose first vehicle will be the Crew Exploration Vehicle, or CEV.  This program is designed to take Americans to the moon, and the CEV is the first stage.
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well there wasn't just one but the first person to walk on the moon was neil armstrong
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Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space, and Alexei Leonov was the first to walk in space (EVA).\n\nThe first American in space was Alan Shepard, and the first American EVA was Ed White.
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On April 12, 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first person to orbit Earth. His flight in Vostok 1 lasts less than 2 hr.
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon
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Lunar Module: Eagle  \nCommand and Service Module: Columbia \nCrew:  Neil Armstrong ,commander\nMichael Collins, command module pilot\nEdwin Aldrin, lunar module pilot \nLaunch: July 16, 1969\n13:32:00 UT (09:32 a.m. EDT) Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A \nLanding Site: Mare Tranquillitatis (Sea of Tranquility)\n0.67 N, 23.47 E \nLanded on Moon: July 20, 1969\n20:17:40 UT (4:17:40 p.m. EDT)  \nFirst step: 02:56:15 UT July 21, 1969\n(10:56:15 p.m. EDT July 20, 1969) \nEVA duration: 2 hours, 31 minutes  \nLunar Surface Traversed: ~250 meters \nMoon Rocks Collected: 21.7 kilograms \nLM Departed Moon: July 21, 1969\n17:54:01 UT (1:54:01 p.m. EDT) \nReturned to Earth: July 24, 1969\n16:50:35 UT (12:50:35 p.m. EDT) \nTime on Lunar Surface: 21 hours, 38 minutes, 21 seconds  \nMission Duration: 195 hr. 18 min. 35 sec. \nRetrieval site: Pacific Ocean 13° 19'N latitude and 169° 9'W longitude  \nRetrieval ship: U.S.S. Hornet \nSpecial Payload: \nPlaque (commemorates first manned landing) \nCarried to Moon and returned two large American flags, flags of the 50 states, District of Columbia and U.S. Territories, flags of other nations and that of the United Nations. \nMEPS (Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly) containing TV camera to record first steps on Moon and EASEP (Early Apollo Science Equipment Package). \n \n \nHighlights:\n\nFirst men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. First return of samples from another planetary body. \nThe prime mission objective of Apollo 11 is stated simply: "Perform a manned lunar landing and return". \nFirst return of samples from another planetary body. These first samples were basalts, dark-colored igneous rocks, and they were about 3.7 billion years old.\n\nPlaque affixed to the leg of the lunar landing vehicle signed by President Nixon, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. The plaque bears a map of the Earth and this inscription: HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH\nFIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON \nJULY 1969 A.D. \nWE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND\n\n \nMore:\n\nThe Apollo 11 spacecraft was launched from Cape Kennedy at 13:31:01 GMT on July 16, 1969. After 2 hr and 33 min in Earth orbit, the S-IVB engine was reignited for acceleration of the spacecraft to the velocity required for Earth gravity escape. \n\nLunar-orbit insertion began at 75:50 ground elapsed time (GET). The spacecraft was placed in an elliptical orbit (61 by 169 nautical miles), inclined 1.25 degrees to the lunar equatorial plane. At 80:12 GET, the service module propulsion system was reignited, and the orbit was made nearly circular (66 by 54 nautical miles) above the surface of the Moon. Each orbit took two hours. Photographs taken from lunar orbit provided broad views for the study of regional lunar geology.\n \nThe lunar module (LM), with Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin aboard, was undocked from the command-service module (CSM) at 100:14 GET, following a thorough check of all the LM systems. At 101:36 GET, the LM descent engine was fired for approximately 29 seconds, and the descent to the lunar surface began. At 102:33 GET, the LM descent engine was started for the last time and burned until touchdown on the lunar surface. Eagle landed on the Moon 102 hr, 45 min and 40 sec after launch.\n\nImmediately after landing on the Moon, Armstrong and Aldrin prepared the LM for liftoff as a contingency measure. Following the meal, a scheduled sleep period was postponed at the astronauts' request, and the astronauts began preparations for descent to the lunar surface.\n \nAstronaut Armstrong emerged from the spacecraft first. While descending, he released the Modularized Equipment Stowage Assembly (MESA) on which the surface television camera was stowed, and the camera recorded humankind's first step on the Moon at 109:24:19 GET. A sample of lunar surface material was collected and stowed to assure that, if a contingency required an early end to the planned surface activities, sam
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The Russians were the first to put a satellite into space (Sputnik 1).  The Americans were the second to put a satellite into space a year later in 1958 (Explorer 1).
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Go to any search engine and type in air craft carrier , you can refine your search by putting u s navy and I even know the name of one of them the uss enterprise..  I know it sounds a bit star treky. but perhaps this info will help..
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A space craft is a vehicle that travels once in space. A   rocket is just a big, hot engine that is used to propel the space craft outside of Earth's gravitational pull. \n\nGood Luck!
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Actually,an astronaut is called 'antarikshayatri' in hindi .This could be a long name so ISRO can use 'brahmanaut' ,brahma comes from 'brahmand' meaning universe.
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Enolla Gay\n\nIt was named after the pilot's mother.
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* Neil Armstrong (flew in Gemini 8 & Apollo 11), commander\n    * Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin (flew in Gemini 12 & Apollo 11), lunar module pilot\n    * Michael Collins (flew in Gemini 10 & Apollo 11), command module pilot\n\nAre all very much alive.
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The first moon landing by a human was that of American Neil Armstrong, Commander of the Apollo 11 mission. On July 20, 1969, while their teammate Michael Collins controlled the command module "Columbia," Armstrong, accompanied by Buzz Aldrin, landed the lunar module, "Eagle" on the surface of the moon at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This article covers the events immediately surrounding the successful moon landing.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing
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The First satellite in Space, Sputnik.\nThe Moon Landing. First man on the moon.\nVoyager first satellite to exit solar system, Voyager.