12 April 1961 .
The Russian put the first man in earth orbit, he was Yuri Gagarin in the year 1961.
No Yuri Gagarin did not walk on the moon. But he only orbited the earth once in the year 1961.
He wasn't. Yuri Gagarin orbited the earth - once - in 1961, a year before Glenn's flight.
Yuri Gagarin made his one and only space flight in April of 1961. He was launched, made a little less than one complete orbit of the Earth, landed about an hour and a half after launch, and never left Earth's atmosphere again after that.
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin , a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to orbit the earth in a space vehicle. He returned from his mission on April 12, 1961. Note: That was the same date on which he departed on his mission, since the mission only lasted 1hour and 48minutes.
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 Gagarin became the first human to travel to space on the 12th of April 1961.
Yuri Gagarin? The Russian cosmonaut? Yuri never went to the moon. He was the first man in space, orbiting the earth April 12, 1961.
1961 Yuri Gagarin
in 1957, he joined cosmonaut.
1961 was the year!Additional Info: The Vostok 3KA spacecraft was launched on April 12, 1961, taking into space Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut from the Soviet Union.