Gagarin made one orbit of the earth in 108 minutes before coming back home.
Cosmonaut is the conventional English term for a Russian astronaut, but the terms astronaut and cosmonaut are considered interchangeable. Cosmonaut derives from the Greek for universe + sailor.The Soviet [Russian] cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has the distinction of having been the first human in space and the first to orbit, orbiting the Earth in 1961.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.
The earth's mass has no effect on its orbit. An astronaut on a "space walk" hovering over the space shuttle's cargo bay is in the same earth-orbit as the shuttle itself is, although his mass is much less than the shuttle's mass. At the same time, the shuttle and the astronaut are both in the same solar orbit as the earth is, although each of them has quite a bit less mass than the earth has.
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.
The first American spacecraft which orbited the earth was called The Mercury Friendship 7, and the astronaut was a famous person his name was John Glenn, he was a senator for many years later.
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Yuri Gagarin April, 1961
Yuri Gagarin, who was not only the first Russian but the first human to orbit the earth.
The first human to go into orbit was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaught.
In 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut (astronaut) Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel in space when he made a single orbit around the earth in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.The Russian Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space.
Cosmonaut is the conventional English term for a Russian astronaut, but the terms astronaut and cosmonaut are considered interchangeable. Cosmonaut derives from the Greek for universe + sailor.The Soviet [Russian] cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has the distinction of having been the first human in space and the first to orbit, orbiting the Earth in 1961.
The USSR put Yury Gagarin into earth orbit. He was the first man in space and the first to orbit the earth on April 12, 1961. Mercury
The Russian Aviation and Space Agency now known as ROSCOSMOS was the first, The cosmonauts name was Yuri Gagarin and the craft was called the Vostok 1.
The Russian put the first man in earth orbit, he was Yuri Gagarin in the year 1961.
Yuri Gagarin was a Russian Cosmonaut and the first human in space, as well as the first human to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth in 1962; that helped further the "space race."
Yuri Gagarin of the USSR and Alan Shepard of the US, though his was a sub-orbital flight. John Glen was the first US astronaut to match Gagarin and orbit the Earth.