Human spaceflight programs in the U.S. and around the world

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Human spaceflight programs in the U.S. and around the world

CNN Here's a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world.

The United States ended its space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011 and landing on July 21, 2011.

India and Iran have both announced their plans to send a crew of spacecraft into space.

On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is the first human in space aboard Vostok 1. He spends 108 minutes in space and makes one orbit around the earth.

Project Mercury astronaut Alan B. Shepard is the first American in space aboard Freedom 7. He spends 15 minutes in a sub-orbital flight.

On June 16, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is the first woman in space aboard Vostok 6. She spends 70 hours in space and 48 times orbits the earth.

March 18, 1965 - Soviet Alexei Leonov is the first man to walk in space.

June 3, 1965 - Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space during Gemini 4.

April 1971 - Salyut, a crewed orbiting space lab, is launched by the Soviet Union.

Sally Ride is the first American woman in space aboard the STS-7 mission from June 18 -- 24, 1983 - Sally Ride is the first American woman in space.

Glenn, 77, becomes the oldest human to ever enter space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, at the end of October 29, 1998.

October 15, 2003 - Yang Liwei is the first Chinese man in space aboard Shenzhou 5.

The US space shuttle program ends on July 21, 2011 - with the landing of the 135th and final space shuttle mission.

June 2012 - China plans to launch the Shenzhou 9, carrying three taikonauts astronauts, on course to rendezvous with Tiangong - 1, a mini-space station, in their first crewed space docking venture. Two crews prepare for the mission, each with a female crewman, Major Liu Wang and Captain Wang Yaping, both Air Force fighter pilots.

China launches Shenzhou 9 with a crew of three, Liu Wang, Jing Haipeng and Liu Yang, from the launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in western Gansu province. Liu Wang is the first female taikonaut to go into space.

August 2, 2020 - SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft splashes into the Gulf of Mexico, ending a historic two-month mission. This is the first time in history that a commercially developed spacecraft has carried humans into Earth's orbit.