Explorers+(people+in+space)

Go to this website for more info. ​ ​ ​ []Neil Armstrong.

Neil Amstrong was the first man on the Moon.

He went to the Moon in 1969 July 20th. Neil Armstrong was a test piolot before he became an astronaut.

The mission was called the Apollo 11. Neils famous saying was"one step for man and one giant leap for mankind"  Sally ride  Go to this website for more info. []

sally ride was born on May 26, 1951. She was the first American women in space She went to space on the 18-24 of June 1983. go to tis website for more info- http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/gagarin.html Yuri Gagarin was the first man ever in space. He did not orbit the earth but he did go into space. He was killed in a tragic airplane accident on March 27, 1968. He was just getting ready to go on his second space flight before he died. John Glenn  He was a war fighter ace and he was an all American boy. He received a heros welcome home in 1962 after becoming the first American to orbit Earth.And he was elected to the the US senate in 1998.  Malcolm Scott Carpenter The Aurora 7 mission was his first and last .NASA officials were furio when he missed his splashed splashed site by hundreds of kms in 1964, a motor bike accident forced Carpenter out of the space program. 