Yes,
The first man-made object to orbit the Earth was the Soviet Sputnik launched on a converted ICBM in the International Geophysical Year.
The first human to orbit the Earth was Soviet Yuri Gagarin who completed a 108 minute orbit in Vostok 1 in 1961.
The first American to orbit the Earth was John Glenn in 1962.
YURI GAGRIN WAS THE FIRST MAN and Valentina was the first women to go in space
because he wanted to be the first Canadian to go to space? because he wanted to be the first Canadian to go to space? because he wanted to be the first man to go to space?
The first country was the USA with a spacecraft named mariner 2 and launched in 1962 to go to Venus.
Because It was like a battle between Russia and the USA, they both wanted to be the first one on the moon. As we all know the first man on the moon was an american, yet the rusians were the first in space
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to ever go into space. He was a Russian cosmonaut.
russia was the first to go into space with sputnick
Russia
Sputnik from Russia.
Yuri Gagarin of the USSR on 12 April 1961.
The first man to go to space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.
The cold war space race was when Russia and America were competing against each other to see who could go to space first.
To beat Russia in the "Space Race"
because it has always been mans dream to travel the heavens (also because we can, and because we can get there before everyone else) also, the United States was in a vicious space race against Russia due in large part to the country's sending both the first man and first aeronautic vehicle into space.
Sputnik (first satellite, 1961) by Russia or the V-2's (first auto-piloted rocket, 1945) by Nazi Germany
A pair of fruitflies were sent into space by the United States. This took place in the late 1940s, and the flies were the very first living creatures to go into space.
The first space shuttle test flights began in 1981, with the first operational flights beginning in 1982.
The first African American man in space was Guion Bluford. his first flight was in 1983.guion "guy" bluford was the first African American to go into space; however, the first black man to go into space as quoted by Wikipedia:Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. He was also the first Hispanophone and first Black person in space