Yuri Gagrin for the Russians on April 12, 1961
The Russian put the first man in earth orbit, he was Yuri Gagarin in the year 1961.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.
The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin, who was not only the first Russian but the first human to orbit the earth.
Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union was the first human to orbit the Earth.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a soviet pilot, was the first human to be launched into space. His Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit around the earth in April of 1961.
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
The first human to have orbited the earth was Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth in 1962; that helped further the "space race."
No human has ever been to Pluto. In fact, no human has ever been beyond the Earth's orbit.
To put a man into orbit around the Earth, and do it before the Americans did.
Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth on April 12, 1961, becoming the first human to travel into space. His Vostok 1 spacecraft completed one orbit around the Earth during this historic mission.