Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.
No human being has ever flown into Orbit before Yuri did. The soviets only flew their sattelites and put them into Earth's orbit. So we can indicate that: Yuri Gagarin is the first human being sent into Space :)
The first human to go into orbit was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaught.
Yuri Gagarin flew in space in the Russian spacecraft Sputnik on April 11 1961.
Yuri Gagarin was born in Russia, and trained as fighter pilot and cosmonaut for the Soviet Union. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human being to travel into space. His spacecraft was called "Vostok I" and it completed a single orbit of the earth in 1 hour and 48 minutes.
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Yuri Gagarin flew into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok I on 12 April 1961, becoming the first man in space. He was born March 9, 1934 in Klushino, Russia and died March 27, 1968 in an airplane crash.
Yes Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon, but Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first person to be sent into orbit around Earth, he was sent into orbit around Earth on April 12 in 1961
Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union became the first human in space on April 12, 1961. He completed one orbit before returning to earth.Yuri Gagarin was the first man in outer space on April 12, 1961.In 1961, The USSR (Russian) cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961
Yuri Gagarin was the first human sent to space.
Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1