Question: Paul C. Donnelly's first manned launch was that of the astronaut and businessman of what nationality?
Context: Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was the first manned mission of the United States Apollo program, which had as its ultimate goal a manned lunar landing.  The low Earth orbital test of the Apollo Command/Service Module never made its target launch date of February 21, 1967.  A cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test on January 27 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 killed all three crew members—Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Edward H. White II, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroyed the Command Module (CM).  The name "Apollo 1", chosen by the crew, was officially retired by NASA in commemoration of them on April 24, 1967. "Apollo 21" is an apocryphal reference to an eleventh manned Moon landing mission of NASA's Apollo program.  Apollo contracted for the construction of fifteen Saturn V launch vehicles used to launch the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon, and achieved the first manned landing with the sixth one (Apollo 11), leaving nine for follow-on lunar missions, through Apollo 20.  However, budget cuts caused NASA to cancel the last three missions, ending the lunar program after Apollo 17.  One Saturn V was used to launch the Skylab space station, and parts of the other two became museum displays. The Vozvraschaemyi Apparat (Russian: Возвращаемый Аппарат ВА , "Return Vehicle", GRAU index 11F74), or VA spacecraft, was a Soviet crew capsule, intended to serve as a manned launch and reentry vehicle.  Initially designed for the LK-1 manned lunar flyby spacecraft for one of the Soviet manned lunar programs, then the LK-700 redesign, it was later repurposed for the Almaz military space station program. Apollo 9 was the third manned mission in the United States Apollo space program and the first flight of the Command/Service Module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM, pronounced "lem").  Its three-person crew, consisting of Commander James McDivitt, Command Module Pilot David Scott, and Lunar Module Pilot Rusty Schweickart, spent ten days in low Earth orbit testing several aspects critical to landing on the Moon, including the LM engines, backpack life support systems, navigation systems, and docking maneuvers.  The mission was the second manned launch of a Saturn V rocket. Paul Charles Donnelly (March 28, 1923 – March 12, 2014) was an American guided missile pioneer and a senior NASA manager during the Apollo moon landing program at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).  Responsible for the checkout of all Apollo launch vehicles and spacecraft, he was also involved in every U.S. manned launch from Alan Shepard's Mercury suborbital flight in 1961 through the tenth space shuttle mission (STS-41B) in 1984. Jay Barbree (born November 26, 1933) is a correspondent for NBC News, focusing on space travel.  Barbree is the only journalist to have covered every manned space mission in the United States, beginning with the first American in space, Alan Shepard aboard "Freedom 7" in 1961, continuing through to the last mission of the Space Shuttle, "Atlantis's" STS-135 mission in July 2011.  Barbree has been present for all 135 space shuttle launches, and every manned launch for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo eras.  In total, Barbree has been witness to 166 manned space launches. Shenzhou ( or ; ) is a spacecraft developed and operated by China to support its manned spaceflight program.  The name is variously translated as "Divine Craft", "Divine Vessel of God", "Magic Boat" or similar and is also homophonous with an ancient name for China (written 神州; meaning "Divine State").  Its design resembles the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, but it is larger in size.  The first launch was on November 19, 1999 and the first manned launch was on October 15, 2003.  In March 2005, an asteroid was named 8256 Shenzhou in honour of the spacecraft. STS-62-A was a planned Space Shuttle mission to deliver a reconnaissance payload (Teal Ruby) into polar orbit.  It was expected to use "Discovery".  It would have been the first manned launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, and the first manned mission to go into polar orbit.  The mission designation, 62-A, meant: 6=fiscal year 1986, 2=Vandenberg (1=Kennedy Space Center), and A=first flight in that fiscal year. Rear Admiral Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. (November 18, 1923 – July 21, 1998) was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7, was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard.  It was the first manned flight of Project Mercury, the objective of which was to put an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and return him safely.  Shepard's mission was a 15-minute suborbital flight with the primary objective of demonstrating his ability to withstand the high g forces of launch and atmospheric re-entry.
Answer: American