The first American man to enter space was Alan Sheppard on May 5th, 1961.
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.
Alan Shepard was the first American to travel into space less than a month after Russian Yuri Gagarin's historic flight. Shepard's suborbital flight on May 5, 1961, made him the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.
In 1961, Soviet Cosmonaut (astronaut) Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel in space when he made a single orbit around the earth in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.The Russian Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space.
Alan Shepard was the first man to go into space. If you are counting monkeys as Americans (which technically they are) then that is a whole other story.
Yuri Gagarin was the first man to travel in space it was on 12 April 1961
No, John Glenn was not the first man in space. The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, who orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961. John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962.
Alan Shepard
April 1961, Gagarin became the first man to travel into space (:
No, The first American in space was Alan Shepard who went into space about a month after Yuri A. Gagarin (first man in space) did.
No as it was early stages of space travel, the first instead it was a one man seater called Vostok .
Alan B Shepard was the first American to fly in space onboard Freedom 7 on May 5th 1961.
The first African American man in space was Guion Bluford. his first flight was in 1983.guion "guy" bluford was the first African American to go into space; however, the first black man to go into space as quoted by Wikipedia:Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) was the first Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. He was also the first Hispanophone and first Black person in space