Notable Events	Space Programs	Years
First human in space First American in space First American in Earth orbit First woman in space First extravehicular activity (EVA) First human landing on the moon	Vostok Mercury Voskhod Gemini Apollo Soyuz	1961 1962 1963 1964 1965	1966 1967 1968 1969

Program	Launch Date	Crew	Notable Events
Vostok 1	April 12, 1961	Gagarin	First human in space; first orbial flight
Mercury 3	May 5, 1961	Shepard	First American in space
Mercury 4	July 21, 1961	Grissom	Capsule sank, but astronaut rescued
Vostok 2	August 6, 1961	Titov	First human in space for more than 24 hours
Mercury 6	February 20, 1962	Glenn	First American in Earth orbit
Mercury 7	May 24, 1962	Carpenter	First meal eaten in space
Vostok 3	August 11, 1962	Nikolayev	First joint mission (with Vostok 4)
Vostok 4	August 12, 1962	Popovich	Came within 4 miles of Vostok 3
Mercury 8	October 3, 1962	Schirra	First splashdown in Pacific Ocean
Mercury 9	May 15, 1963	Cooper	First American in space for more than 24 hours
Vostok 5	June 14, 1963	Bykovsky	Second joint mission (with Vostok 6)
Vostok 6	June 16, 1963	Tereshkova	First woman in space
Voskhod 1	October 12, 1964	Komarov Feoktistov Yegorov	First three person mission
Voskhod 2	March 18, 1965	Belyayev Leonov	First EVA completed by Leonov
Gemini 3	March 23, 1965	Grissom Young	First American two person crew; first manual maneuvering
Gemini IV	June 3, 1965	McDivitt White	First American EVA by White
Gemini V	August 21, 1965	Cooper Conrad	Eight day flight
Gemini VII	December 4, 1965	Borman Lovell	14-day flight; rendezvous with Gemini VI
Gemini VI	December 15, 1965	Schirra Stafford	Came within one foot of Gemini VII
Gemini VIII	March 16, 1966	Armstrong Scott	First docking
Gemini IX-A	June 3, 1966	Stafford Cernan	Two hour spacewalk; Most accurate splashdown
Gemini X	July 18, 1966	Young Collins	First dual rendezvous
Gemini XI	September 12, 1966	Conrad Gordon	Highest altitude (850 miles); first tethered flight
Gemini XII	November 11, 1966	Lovell Aldrin	Aldrin completed five-hour EVA
Apollo 1	January 27, 1967	Grissom White Chaffee	Crew died in a spacecraft fire during a pre-flight test
Soyuz 1	April 23, 1967	Komarov	Cosmonaut died during reentry
Apollo 7	October 11, 1968	Schirra Eisele Cunningham	First live TV broadcast from piloted spacecraft
Soyuz 3	October 26, 1968	Beregovoy	Maneuvered near unpiloted Soyuz 2
Apollo 8	December 21, 1968	Borman Lovell Anders	First humans to orbit moon; speed record of 24, 200 mph
Soyuz 4	January 14, 1969	Shatalov	Docked with Soyuz 5 and received 2 cosmonauts
Soyuz 5	January 15, 1969	Volynov Yeliseyev Khrunov	Transferred to cosmonauts to Soyuz 4
Apollo 9	March 3, 1969	McDivitt Scott Schweickart	First test of lunar module in Earth orbit
Apollo 10	May 18, 1969	Stafford Young Cernan	First test of lunar module in lunar orbit
Apollo 11	July 16, 1969	Armstrong Collins Aldrin	First human landing on the Moon
Soyuz 6	October 11, 1969	Shonin Kubasov	Joint mission with Soyuz 7 and 8 without docking
Soyuz 7	October 12, 1969	Filipchenko Gorbatko Volkov
Soyuz 8	October 13, 1969	Shatalov Yeliseyev
Apollo 12	November 14, 1969	Conrad Gordon Bean	Retrieved pieces of Surveyor 3