Who was the first US Woman to go to space?
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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first woman in space. however, on Vostok 6 in 1963
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Historically I believe it would be  Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who was a golfer and olympic track star.\n\nAnswers.com's bio says: " Mildred 'Babe' Didrikson Zaharias was voted the outstanding woman athlete of the century in a 1950 Associated Press poll. Though she gained her greatest professional fame as a golfer, she rivalled Jim Thorpe in her remarkable ability to excel at nearly any sport. She began as a basketball All-American, then won two track and field golds at the 1932 Olympics. Next she turned professional and began touring the country, exhibiting her prowess in track, swimming, tennis, baseball, and even billiards. In 1935 Zaharias took up golf and excelled at that, too, winning 82 tournaments in a 20-year career. She was only 42 when she died of cancer in 1956."
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The Mercury Program was first, testing the ability of humans to operate complex machines in space.  Then came the Gemini Program, which tested how two spaceships could rendezvous (come together and dock) and how astronauts could perform spacewalks, both important for landing on the moon.  The Apollo program was next, which after a ground failure and four successful non-moon-landing flights, landed on the moon in 1969.\nThere is another answer to this question, since you're looking for the first stage in THE space program to send Americans to the moon.  There is currently a program called "Constellation", or simply "Exploration", whose first vehicle will be the Crew Exploration Vehicle, or CEV.  This program is designed to take Americans to the moon, and the CEV is the first stage.
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Americans use the word "astronaut, from the Greek "astro" meaning star, and "naut" meaning traveler.  The Russians use the word "cosmonaut," this time from the Greek "cosmos" meaning Universe.
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Armstrong, Neil Alden \n \n1930—, American astronaut, b. Wapakoneta, Ohio. A U.S. Navy fighter pilot during the Korean War, Armstrong subsequently became a test pilot for what was then the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in 1955. In 1962, already a veteran of the X-15, Armstrong became a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut and served as command pilot of the Gemini 8 mission. As commander of Apollo 11 (July 16—24, 1969), he was the first person (July 20 EDST) to step on the moon, saying: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." He taught aeronautical engineering at the Univ. of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979. In 1985, President Reagan appointed Armstrong to the National Commission on Space and in 1986 named him vice chairman of a panel to investigate the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger earlier that year
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Amelia Earhart\nShort Bio from Wiki:\nAmelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – missing as of July 2, 1937), daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart, was an American aviator and noted early female pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight in 1937.\n\nLink to Wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
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Sputnik 1957\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite#The_first_artificial_satellite
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On April 12, 1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first person to orbit Earth. His flight in Vostok 1 lasts less than 2 hr.
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First Satellites in orbit.\nFirst Man in orbit.\nFirst woman in orbit.\nFirst probes to Mars (many missions, all unsuccesfull).\nFirst probes to Venus (only pictures of Venus surface).\nThe Mir space station.\nThe first docking of USSR & American modules in space.\nMoon Satelites & probes.\nMany flights to the International Space Station including something like 5 of the last 6 crew transfers, and 12 or more unmaned supply vehicles.\nHundereds of satelite launches.\n\nSo much more...
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"Jerry Elliott, a Cherokee and Osage, helped send the first man to the moon.\n\nAnd as a NASA flight mission controller, he helped bring home three astronauts from a broken space module called Apollo 13.\n\nHis secret to success was just laying himself out there, despite his cultural differences."\n\n\nedit: If you're talking about an Indian from India, the first Indian to work for NASA was Kalpana Chawla.  She was one of the crew that died on Columbia when it exploded on February 1, 2003.  Kalpana was born in Karnal, India.
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Niel Armstrong. Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be the first but Armstrong was closest to the door.
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The First satellite in Space, Sputnik.\nThe Moon Landing. First man on the moon.\nVoyager first satellite to exit solar system, Voyager.
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Emma Susan (Daugherty) Banister was the first known woman sherrif in US. Alaska is not known.
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Doctor, nurse, medical research, biologist, chemist, anything with NASA.....
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The first rocket which could fly high enough to get into space was the V2 missile which was first launched by Germany in 1942. The first rocket which actually launched something into space was used to launch Sputnik, the first satellite, on October 4, 1957. The rocket that launched Sputnik was a R-7 ICBM rocket
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First female- Laika, the russian dog.\n\nFirst human- Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova\nFirst American Woman- Dr. Sally Ride
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Soviet Union.\n"The first man-made object to land on the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959, the first photographs of the otherwise occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year, and the first people to land on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969."