Gherman Titov in 1961. Neil Armstrong first flew in space in 1966.
The first person to travel into space was Yuri Gagarin April 12th, 1961.
John Glenn traveled to space at age 77 for a study on the effects of space travel on the elderly.
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The oldest person to travel in space is John Glenn, who flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1998 at the age of 77.
There are many Space Tourism sites that can help a person with space travel. In reality though most are usually conferences. Usually only those who are qualified Astronauts go to space.
Yuri Gagarin was from Russia.
The first person to travel to space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut who orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961 in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
Same as an astronaut. A person trained by a space program to travel into space as a crew member of the space program.
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.
April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space (:
No, that was Russian Yuri Gagarin
Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian-born person to travel in space. He flew aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11 in 1984.