Manned space missions

 Manned space missions: Man's space adventure began with the Russian Yuri Gagarin, who on April 12, 1961 became the first person to travel to space. Gagarin traveled in the Vostok 1 spacecraft, which circled Earth on a mission that only lasted 108 minutes. The next step was taken by the Americans with the arrival of man on the Moon. The first "moon landing" occurred on July 20, 1969, and the first man to step on it was Neil Armstrong. This mission was part of the "Apollo" project, which managed to complete 6 manned trips to our satellite. The trips were made between 1969 and 1972 and there were 12 astronauts who managed to step on the lunar soil. At present there is no project to send manned missions to the Moon, although it is not ruled out to send a probe in order to develop our knowledge about this natural satellite of the Earth. In 1986, the USSR put the Mir space station into orbit. It was one of the most important space navigation projects of the 20th cent...