Astronaut is the term the US uses for a person who goes into space, cosmonaut is the Russian term.
The first astronaut to fly into space was Alan Shepard, who flew the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 15-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. However, the first person to fly in space was Yuri Gagarin, who orbited the earth three times on April 12, 1961. Although this was 23 days before Shepard's flight, since Gagarin flew on Soviet spacecraft he was a cosmonaut, not an astronaut.
Yuri Gagarin. Apollo 11 was the first crew of astronauts to reach another solar body. The crew was Neil Armstrong (first man to set foot on the moon), Commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and , Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.
The first person in space was Yuri Gagarin.
The first person sent into space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.
Technically, Russian Cosmonauts were the first in space. Yuri Gagaren was the first Cosmonaut in space while John Glenn was the first Astronaut in space.
Yuri Gagarin was the first astronaut to travel in space.
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The first dog to go into space was Laika.
The first European to reach the Indian ocean was Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama
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Cosmenauts
The first person to fly in space was Yiri Gagarin a Russian.
The first person in Space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.
The name of the first space shuttle that was run through free flight simulation was Enterprise, but the first space shuttle to actually reach orbit was Columbia in 1981.
The first person in space was Russian cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
The first rocket to reach space was the German V2 in the 1940s. The first spacecraft to achieve orbit was the Soviet Sputnik, launched in 1957.
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The fist person to jourmey space was Valentina Tereshkova
Yuri Gargarin
The name of the first person to reach what is now called the Philippines is lost to history because that person got there thousands of years ago, before writing was established in the area. The first Europeans to reach what is now called the Philippines were the crew of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition.
Yuri Gagarin on 12 April 1961
When the US and the USSR raced to get the newest equipment into space. The United States won in the end, but Russia had the first person in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon, and he was American.