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Yuri Gagarin
The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin, from the USSR.
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, was the first person to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
Yuri Gagarin was a Russian Cosmonaut and the first human in space, as well as the first human to orbit the earth.
The Soviets, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the earth.
Yuri gagarin
John Glenn, now a US Senator from Ohio, was the first American to orbit the earth, but not the first person. That distinction went to Yuri Gagarin of the USSR.
Yuri Gagarin, who was not only the first Russian but the first human to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space. It was on April 12, 1961. He was 27 years old.
The Soviet Union takes credit for sending the first man into orbit around the earth. However, since, Yuri Gagarin did not land in his capsule, it technically does not count as an official orbit. Still, no one disputes that Gagarin did in fact orbit the earth. The first person to orbit the earth and land in his spacecraft was John Glenn of the United States.
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin , a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.