Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961 .
No. The USSR was the first to launch any kind of space craft with the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957. The US was the first to send a man to the moon in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission
The first Space shuttle to launch was Columbia in April of 1981
For about the first 15 years of space travel,almost all of the people who did it were men.
Yuri Gagarin - Launch date 12th April 1961.
The first country to launch the first successful manned space flight was Russia. Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space as a result of that achievement.
No, the first man went up after sputnik's launch. For more info, search "Yuri Gagagarin"
the first rocket was
The Soviet Union (Russia) was the first country to launch a successful space rocket, the R-7.
Not known, any studies for a launch !
The Columbia.
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