Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin .......during which he became the first human in space and the first to orbit the planet.
The spacecraft that Yuri Gagarin flew in for the first human space flight in 1961 was called Vostok 1.
Yuri Gagarin flew aboard Vostok 1 om April 12 of 1961.
Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space aboard the space capsule "Vostok 1". (designated 3KA-2, Vostok meaning "east" or "oriental")
The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, who flew on Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. The first woman in space was Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who flew on Vostok 6 in 1963. Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the Moon, in July 1969. No women have yet flown to the Moon.
Gagarin's spacecraft was known as Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
The name of Yuri Gagarin's spacecraft was Vostok 1.
Yuri Gagarin was not aboard a space shuttle; he flew in the Vostok 1 spacecraft. Launched on April 12, 1961, Gagarin became the first human to travel into space and complete an orbit around the Earth. The Vostok program was Russia's pioneering effort in human spaceflight.
Yuri Gagarin's spaceship was called Vostok 1.
Valentina Tereshkova (born 1937) was the first woman in space, and flew the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days in June, 1963. Vostok 6 flew at the same time as Vostok 5, piloted by male cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, who launched before Tereshkova but landed afterward.
Yuri Gagarin was carried to space in the Vostok-1 spacecraft (a Vostok 3KA spacecraft), which was carried into space onboard a Vostok-K (more specifically a Vostok-8K72K) rocket.
Vostok 3KA-2, also known as Vostok 1.
Vostok 3KA-2.