The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. The previous US flights had been sub-orbital. Yuri Gagarin of the USSR had earlier been the first human to orbit earth.
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin , a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.
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.
No. Yuri Gagarin, a citizen of the USSR, preceded him.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.
The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin, who was not only the first Russian but the first human to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union was the first human to orbit the Earth.
The first human to have orbited the earth was Yuri Gagarin.
The Russian put the first man in earth orbit, he was Yuri Gagarin in the year 1961.
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. The previous US flights had been sub-orbital. Yuri Gagarin of the USSR had earlier been the first human to orbit earth.
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, was the first person to orbit the Earth on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth in 1962; that helped further the "space race."
No human has ever been to Pluto. In fact, no human has ever been beyond the Earth's orbit.
On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin , a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.
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.