Yuri Gargarin Soviet cosmonaut in 1961.
Yuri Gregarian, from the, then, USSR (Soviet Union).
humans need to travel to outer space to reduce the chances of human species being wiped out by a single disaster such as meteor
Russia.
It was the Russian, Yuri Gagarin.
A Russian named Yuri Gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth. Alan Shepard was the first American in space and the second person to travel into space.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel in outer space on April 12th, 1961
He was the first human being in space.
Yuri Gagarin
The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched in space in 1961.
Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel to space on the 12th of April 1961.
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space, on 12 April 1961.
Yes, he was the first human in space. Only, his spacecraft was called Vostok, not Vostka.