final summary
Mission Name: Country (USSR/USA), Crew, Basic Mission Summary
Vostok 1: USSR, Yuri Gagarin, sent first man in space, completed 1 orbit
Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7): USA, Alan Shepard, sent first American in space, 15 minute suborbital test of retrorockets
Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7): USA, Gus Grissom, 15 minute suborbital test of retrorockets
Vostok 2: USSR, Gherman Titov, first mission to last a day, completed 17 orbits
Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7) USA, John Glenn, sent first American to orbit, completed 3 orbits
Vostok 3: USSR, Andriyan Nikolayev, see Vostok 4
Vostok 4: USSR, Pavel Popovich, first communication between two spacecraft in orbit
Vostok 5: USSR, Valery Bykovsky, 5-day spaceflight record
Vostok 6: USSR, Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space
Voskhod 1: USSR, Vladimir Komarov, Boris Yegerov, Konstantin Feokistov, first multi-person mission
Voskhod 2: USSR, Pavel Belyavev, Alexei Leonov, first spacewalk
Gemini 3: USA, Gus Grissom, John Young, first spacecraft to change orbit
Gemini 4: USA, Jim McDivitt, Ed White, first American spacewalk
Gemini 5: USA, Gordon Cooper, Pete Conrad, 8-day spaceflight record
Gemini 6A: USA, Wally Schirra, Tom Stafford, see Gemini 7
Gemini 7: USA, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, first rendevous between two crewed spacecraft
Gemini 8: USA, Neil Armstrong, David Scott, first docking in orbit
Gemini 11, USA, Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, highest apogee (distance from Earth) on non-lunar mission
Gemini 12: USA, Jim Lovell, Buzz Aldrin, longest EVA (5 hours)
Apollo 1: USA, Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee, first crew to be killed in a fire in the cabin
Soyuz 1: USSR, Vladimir Komarov, first parachute failure on a capsule, first man to be killed in 400 mph impact with Earth
Apollo 8: USA, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, Bill Anders, first manned mission to Moon
Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5: USSR, Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Aleksei Yeliseyev, Yevgeny Khrunov, first crew exchange of spacecraft, first docking of two manned spacecraft, Soyuz 5 had Boris Volynov become the first person to break his jaw upon hard landing
Apollo 9: USA, Jim McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweikart, first test of a lunar lander in Earth orbit
Apollo 11: USA, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Micheal Collins, first manned landing on the Moon
Apollo 12: USA, Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, Alan Bean, first targeted landing on the Moon
Apollo 15: USA, David Scott, Al Worden, Jim Irwin, first rover on the Moon
