the first soviet who went to space in 1961 was alaxeyevich gagarin.
Yuri Garagin
It was a male, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on April 12,1961. The first woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, went on June 16th,1963.
Laika went to space in 1957 Answer by Nittish, 7 years old
The first ever American to go into outer space was astronaut John Glenn, who orbited the Earth aboard the capsule Friendship 7 on 20th February 1962, at the age of 41 years old.He went up again aboard the space shuttle Discovery on 29th October 1998, becoming the oldest person to fly in space at the age of 77! He has also served as a prominent US Senator for the Republican Party, and is 91 years old as of February 2013.
Helen Sharman was the first English WOMAN in space. She went up in Soyuz 12 on 18th May 1991 to visit the International Space Station
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The space race was still on. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin went to space, being the first person to ever go into space.
This was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who went into orbit aboard a Vostok 1 rocket on 12th April 1961.
I think it was the Soviet Union
The first man in space was the Russian, Yuri Gagarin. He first went to space on the 12th of April, 1961.
April 12, 1961 when a Russian, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to get into space.
The Americans went first in space if manned it was in 1961 and Alan. B. Shepherd was the astronaut.
Yuri Gagarin - 12th April 1961
Yuri Gagarin April 12, 1961
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin from the Soviet Union (now Russia).
He is Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin from the former Soviet Union (now Russia). The 27-year-old Soviet Air Force major made his flight Apr 12, 1961, lasting 108 minutes and orbiting Earth in a rocket-propelled, five-ton space capsule.
Soviet cosmonaut Valentine Tereshkova was the first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 in June 1963.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin on 12 April 1961 became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the EarthSoviet Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, made the first flight into space on April 12, 1961.