Today in 1965, Gemini 3 took off from Cape Kennedy with Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young in it.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space, a cosmonaut. He completed his flight on April 12, 1961.
The first person to fly in space was Yiri Gagarin a Russian.
John Young, on his fifth space flight (the pilot was Bob Crippen, on his first space flight)
Alan Shepard was the first person to go into space using a Mercury Capsule. His flight was sub-orbital, lasting about 15 minutes.
The USSR or Russia. They had the first satellite, the first animal in space, the first manned space flight, and the first space walk. But we beat them to the moon.
Depending if you mean any air flight of flight to space. First Space Shuttle was Columbia First Successful flight was over the English Channel.
Orbiter Space Flight Simulator may be downloaded from the Orbiter Sim website for free. To locate this, please Google the full term " Orbiter Space Flight Simulator" and select the first link rendered.
The first space flight was in 1981, Columbia was the first to make a space flight. The shuttle was a masterpiece of engineering. After being launched into space it could be flown like a plane.
Yuri Gagarin's first flight was to space. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human to journey into outer space aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. Gagarin's historic flight lasted 108 minutes, orbiting the Earth once before returning safely.
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I'm not sure there was a first person, but I think the first flight to have a slinky in space was Space Shuttle flight 51-D launched in 1985 with a crew of David Griggs, Charles Walker, Karol J. Bobko, Donald E. Williams, Rhea Seddon & Jeffrey Hoffman. It was a slinky toy called a slinky mouse
The first country to launch the first successful manned space flight was Russia. Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space as a result of that achievement.