The first two American human spaceflight programs, Project Mercury, which put the first Americans in space between 1961 and 1963, and Project Gemini, the two-person flights that tested rendezvous, docking and long-duration flight. A program belongs here when its cited article names it as a United States human spaceflight project. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
All American Early Crewed Spaceflight Programs
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Wikipedia - Project Mercury
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Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.
Wikipedia - Project Gemini
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Project Gemini (IPA: ) was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly.
Apollo-Soyuz (Wikipedia)
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first crewed international space mission, conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union
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