Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space on April 12, 1961 .
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No. The USSR was the first to launch any kind of space craft with the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957. The US was the first to send a man to the moon in 1969 with the Apollo 11 mission
The first Space shuttle to launch was Columbia in April of 1981
For about the first 15 years of space travel,almost all of the people who did it were men.
Yuri Gagarin - Launch date 12th April 1961.
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.
The first shuttle launch was April 12, 1981. It was called STS-1
Not known, any studies for a launch !
The Columbia.
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Yuri Gagarin, a cosmonaut of the USSR (Soviet Union, now Russia) completed the first manned orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961. He was the "first man in space".
October 4, 1957 was the exact date of the Sputnik launch.