Yes Yuri A Gargarin WAS the first person to visit space.
Yes. Yuri Gagarin was a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human being to travel into space. His spacecraft was called "Vostok I" and it completed a single orbit of the earth in 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Yuri Gagarin was from Russia.
The first person to travel into space was Yuri Gagarin April 12th, 1961.
The first person in space was Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
No, that was Russian Yuri Gagarin
April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space (:
Assuming you meant the 'Columbus' of the space age... It's because Gagarin was the first person to travel into space - just as Columbus was the first explorer to discover america.
A Russian named Yuri Gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth. Alan Shepard was the first American in space and the second person to travel into space.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space, on 12 April 1961.
Yuri Gagarin became the first person into outer space on the 12th of April, 1961.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space on the 12th of April 1961.
Yuri Gagarin is the first person to fly in space.
It was the Russian, Yuri Gagarin.