Human Spaceflight
Human spaceflight (or manned spaceflight or crewed spaceflight) is space travel with humans on the spacecraft. When a spacecraft is manned, it can be piloted directly, as opposed to machine or robotic space probes controlled remotely by humans or through automatic methods on board the spacecraft.
Orbital human spaceflight
Human orbital spaceflight programs:
- Vostok, 1961
- Mercury, 1962
- Voskhod, 1964
- Gemini, 1965
- Soyuz, 1967
- Apollo, 1968
- Shuttle, 1981
- Shenzhou, 2003
Suborbital human spaceflight
Human suborbital spaceflight programs:
- X-15, 1962
- SpaceShipOne, 2004