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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
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Who was the First to orbit a manned spacecraft around the earth?
Yuri Gagarin of the USSR was.
Who first orbited the earth?
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, was the first person to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
Who was the first man satellite to orbit earth?
Yuri Gagarin in the Vostok 1 spacecraft in 1961.
Who is the first person who jumped into earth orbit without a spacecraft?
Not yet so far..:-)because its not possible to a human to go onto a space without any spacecraft... but The first man who jumped in an earth's orbit with a spacecraft is "YURI GAGARIN"
When did Yuri gagarin come back from space?
It took Yuri Gagarin 108 minutes to orbit the Earth.
What was Yuri gagarin spacecraft and nationality?
Yuri Gagarin spacecraft name was vostock 1, and he is from Russia.
The firstman to orbit the earth?
Yuri Gagarin of the USSR
First Russian to orbit the earth?
Yuri gagarin
The first person to orbit earth was?
Yuri Gagarin
Which country first put a manned spacecraft into orbit?
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.
When did Yuri gagarin orbit earth?
12 April 1961
Who was the first person to orbit earth in a spacecraft and what year did it happen?
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin , a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.
