The first person to fly in space was Yiri Gagarin a Russian.
The first person to travel into space was Yuri Gagarin April 12th, 1961.
Yuri Gagarin was from Russia.
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.
The first person to travel to space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut who orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961 in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
I'm not sure, but of you go on www.wikipedia.com and search the article titled "Timeline of space travel by nationality", it gives you a list of countries and people who went to space, ordered by nationality.
April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space (:
Gagarin was a citizen of the USSR and an officer in the Soviet Air Force.
The first person in space was sent by the Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space on April 12, 1961.
The first person in space was Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
No, that was Russian Yuri Gagarin
Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian-born person to travel in space. He flew aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11 in 1984.