Vostok 1
The first manned flight in 1961 was conducted by Soviet astronaut Yuri Gagarin aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth during this historic spaceflight on April 12, 1961.
The first manned spaceflight, made by Yuri Gagarin in 1961, lasted about 108 minutes from launch to landing.
The first manned space mission was performed by Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut. The mission was called Vostok 1 and it took place April 12, 1961.
The first manned spaceflight was made by Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok 1. Gagarin's historic flight made him the first human to travel into space and orbit the Earth.
There were six manned Mercury missions, between 1961 and 1963, which were part of the United States' first human spaceflight program. These missions aimed to prove human spaceflight was possible and lay the foundation for future space missions.
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The first manned rocket was called Vostok 1. It was launched by the Soviet Union on April 12, 1961, with Yuri Gagarin aboard, making him the first human to journey into outer space.
Yuri Gagarin piloted Vostok 1 in a single orbit around the earth on April 12, 1961. It was Gagarin's only spaceflight. Gagarin died in a military plane crash on March 27, 1968.
The first flights were either unmanned or had a chimp-o-naut aboard. Mercury-Redstone 3 launched on May 5, 1961 with Alan Shepard aboard.
The first ever manned mission was done on April 12, 1961, by Yuri Gagarin (USSR).
The first human spaceflight was undertaken on April 12, 1961, when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft, launched by the Soviet space program and designed by the rocket scientists Sergey Korolyov and Kerim Kerimov.
Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, with ten manned flights occurring in 1965 and 1966.