The first Station crew, made up of U.S. commander Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, was launched on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The crew returned to Earth on the Space Shuttle Discovery in March 2001.Since Russia And the U.S Had Teamed up on multiple Occasions But Yuri Gagrin Is known to be the First Russian Cosmonaut.
Sergei Krikalev flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, launched on February 3, 1994
No Russian cosmonaut has landed on the moon. The first human to walk on the moon was American astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969.
He was a Russian cosmonaut and the first man into space in April 1961
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961.
Cosmonaut is the conventional English term for a Russian astronaut, but the terms astronaut and cosmonaut are considered interchangeable. Cosmonaut derives from the Greek for universe + sailor.The Soviet [Russian] cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has the distinction of having been the first human in space and the first to orbit, orbiting the Earth in 1961.
Yuri Gagarin, Russian Cosmonaut
Cosmenauts
The Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova
The Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was first to spacewalk on the 18th March 1965
The late Russian Yuri Gagarin was the first cosmonaut in space.
On 12 April 1961, the now famous Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to be launched into space on board the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft.
Actually only usa astronauts were successful in landing on the moon.no russian cosmonauts.