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The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, was the first person to orbit the earth.
The first person to orbit Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut who completed this historic feat on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin , a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to orbit the Earth, and he was from the Soviet Union (now Russia). He achieved this historic milestone on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space. It was on April 12, 1961. He was 27 years old.
Yuri Gagarin was a Russian Cosmonaut and the first human in space, as well as the first human to orbit the earth.
The first person to orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut. He accomplished this on April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
The Soviets, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the earth.
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.
The first person to orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, on April 12, 1961. He completed one orbit around Earth in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
The first person to orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut who completed a single orbit around the Earth on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.