Yuri Gagarin was a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human being to travel into space. His spacecraft was called "Vostok I" and it completed a single orbit of the earth in 1 hour and 48 minutes.
Yuri Gagarin was aboard but not piloting Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961. While he launched with the capsule, he did not land with it, as the Soviets did not believe that the landing system (landing on land, not water) was sufficient to assure Gagarin's survival. He ejected at 7 km above the ground and landed via parachute. This was technically a departure from the usual international definition of an orbital spaceflight. However, since Gagarin achieved orbit while Alan Shepard (first American in space) did not, the point of which country was first to orbit is moot. Vostok 2 with Gherman Titov aboard completed 17 orbits in August 1961, long before John Glenn's three-orbit flight in February, 1962.
Technically John Glenn was the first astronaut, the USSR called their space travellers cosmonauts.
The first person to orbit the earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, a year before John Glenns flight.
John H. Glenn, jr
That was John Glen, who orbited the earth 3 times.
The first American to orbit the earth was astronaut John H. Glenn. Who later became a senator.
Valentina Tereshkoa was the first woman to orbit in space
Sputnik 1 I believe. It was from the soviet union.
Muhamed Munchun, They shot him from a rocket launcher and he flew into space.
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A low Earth orbit (LEO) is an orbit around Earth as low as 100 miles and up to 1,240 miles close to the Earth's poles.
Sputnik 1, the first man made object to orbit the earth. And we've been polluting like crazy up there ever since.
She accomplished being the first and youngest woman to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth.
The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
The Soviets, Yuri Gagarin was the first man to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin, who was not only the first Russian but the first human to orbit the earth.
What nationaility was the first man to orbit the earth in the space craft
Many think that some bacteria may have been the first to orbit the Earth.
the first female hispanic astronaut to orbit earth was Ellen Lauri Ochoa
Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.
The USSR put Yury Gagarin into earth orbit. He was the first man in space and the first to orbit the earth on April 12, 1961. Mercury
No country has ever orbited the earth. Scientists and engineers in the USSR placed the first man-made satellite in earth orbit, in 1957.
this answer is from the google searching by charry escabas valentina tereshkova a russian cosmonaut was the first woman in space when she flew the vostok6 sovietspace vehicle in 48 orbits of the earth from june 16,1963 to june 18