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Soviet spacecraft used for the first human spaceflights.

American launch vehicle used for the first crewed suborbital Mercury flights.

American launch vehicle used for the first crewed orbital Mercury missions.

The Gemini program aimed to develop advanced spaceflight techniques needed to send humans to the Moon.

Since 1967, initially Soviet and then Russian, the longest-operating crewed spacecraft program in history.

The goal of the Apollo program was to land a human on the Moon and then bring him safely back to Earth.