KITTY HAWK, N.C. – April 16, 2021 – The First Flight Society announced today that Sally K Ride, has been named the 2021 Honoree to be inducted into the Dr. Paul […]
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Rear Admiral Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Inducted in 1993 The First American In Space, 1961 The Fifth Man To Walk On The Moon, 1971 1923 – 1998 Naval aviator Alan Shepard lifted off from Pad 5 […]
Colonel Yuri A. Gagarin
Inducted in 1990 First Person In Space, 1961 1934 – 1968 Colonel Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, Soviet Air Force, became a Soviet hero as the first person to break the bonds […]
Captain Bruce McCandless II
Inducted in 1985 First Man To Walk In Space Untethered, 1984 1937 – 2017 Challenger’s February 1984 flight was America’s tenth space shuttle mission and the first spacecraft of any […]
Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.
Inducted in 1978 First American To Orbit The Earth, 1962 1921 -2016 On February 20, 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Glenn, Jr., United States Marine Corps, lifted off from Cape Canaveral, […]
Major Robert M. White
Inducted in 1971 First Astronaut Designee In A Winged Aircraft, 1962 1924 – 2010 The first men to reach space were aboard capsules, but great advancements were simultaneously being made […]