One thing no one knows yet though is who will be China's first man in space.
The films, showing man in space, on the Moon, on Mars, and the "unknown", fascinated the boy Rutan.
The Czech MEP was the first man in space not to be from the US or the Soviet Union.
America's first man in space, Alan Shepard, who later walked on the moon in 1971's Apollo 14 mission, became a millionaire businessman.
But today, the demilitarized town where the first man in space Yuri Gagarin once lived, is open for business, ferrying cosmonauts and billionaires to space while also offering wild spins in a giant centrifuge to visitors who only dream of the great beyond.
America put a man in space, put a man in orbit, put a man on the moon, created the world's first reusable spacecraft, sent unmanned probes to other planets and led the world in making important scientific discoveries outside the Earth's atmosphere.
That means Mars-bound astronauts will also have to skip out on the ground-based psychological support sessions that astronauts and cosmonauts working on the international space station routinely have just to make sure microgravity has not gone to their heads (Before Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space in 1961, experts were afraid weightlessness might cause schizophrenia, explained one doctor).
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It blasted a disused weather satellite into tiny fragments that threaten the safety of other man-made objects in space.
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David Schwartz, chief curator of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York says one man in particular helped launch that space craze.
Esa is a member of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee (IADC), a forum for the worldwide coordination of activities related to the issues of man-made and natural debris in space.
Edward James Olmos was soberly convincing as Commander Adama, a man facing the end times in the darkness of space.
And with Danny Pugh and Andy Wilkinson man-on-man against Milner and Young, there was no space in behind for the wingers to exploit.
That led to him designing the apes seen in the Dawn of Man sequence of 2001: A Space Odyssey, a laborious two-year process that at one stage saw comedian Ronnie Corbett participate in make-up tests.
President Ahmadinejad announced in 2011 that the country planned to send a man into space by 2019.
The Isle of Man is the headquarters for 12 space firms which are involved in work such as developing space tourism technology and satellite communications.
Majstorovic ought to have given Celtic more breathing space shortly after the break when the tallest man in the Celtic team was somehow left unmarked but headed powerfully wide following a corner.
Among the offerings are a bid to park a Mini in a space simply not mini enough for it, a man using a space so small that he has to turn his wheel a dozen times and jolts the neighbouring cars with every movement, and a car reversing heavily into the one behind it - repeatedly.
The Isle of Man's space industry has been hailed as a "fascinating model" in recent market research.
To sum up: in the space of a few minutes, our take on this man has flipped and rolled over, twice, and nothing is quite what it seems.
In 1962, the Mariner II space probe began sending back to Earth man's first information from another planet, Venus.
He was arrested after officers found a man had stuffed a sack containing live mice into the space above a ceiling panel in a pizzeria bathroom.
An astronaut, in the most proverbial floating-through-space sense, is a brave man who has the world gawking at him.
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The literal launch of brand NASA found every American in front of the flickering black-and-white images of a man hurtling into space.
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He once told me that when he entered Princeton in 1969, man had landed on the moon, inspiring him to pursue physics and space technology.
The man leading the venture is Denis Tito, who paid 20 million dollars to become the first "tourist" in space.
The new man's first brush with Turkey's soldiers came after their coup of 1980, their third in the space of 20 years, when his boss in the transport authority, a retired colonel, told him to shave off his moustache.
Having seen an initial corner cleared, Lansbury collected outside the box, created space for himself on the right before feeding Harley in the box and the former Sheffield United man struck the ball past Grant and into the far corner.
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