A Soviet cosmonaut named Yuri Gargarin.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first person to ever go into space
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to ever go into space. He was a Russian cosmonaut.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to space on April 12 1961 and returned safely.
It was Dennis Tito. He was the first self-funding tourist to go into space for vacation.
she is important to Chicago because she was the first person to go to space Acually No She was not the first person to go to space she was the 4th African American to enter space but the first FEMALE African American to enter space...
It was Yuri Gagarin
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April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space (:
RussiaApril 12, 1961: Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
" Guion "Guy" Bluford became the first black person to go into space. He was on the Space Shuttle Challenger's STS 8 mission, launched on August 30, 1983. The first black woman was Mae Jemison. " Guion "Guy" Bluford was NOT the 1st Black Person in space, he WAS the 1st African-American. In 1980, the 1st Black person in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez, a Cuban. no the first African American to go into space was guion bluford like the first person said