All I know is that "Neil Armstrong" was the First man to step on the Moon :)
Yuri Gagarin was the first man (and first Russian) to be put in space.
USSR .
The USSR put Yuri Gagarin space in 1961
Russia Yuri Gagarin
For about the first 15 years of space travel,almost all of the people who did it were men.
The USSR (Russia). Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, was the first man in space on April 12, 1961.
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
They were the first to put a man on the moon; Neil Armstrong.
Sputnik 1 was the first man made satellite put into space. There were earlier attempts that failed. Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first man-made object that stayed there, i.e. successfully achieved earth orbit.
Russia to put a man in orbit US to put on the moon
To have something "discovered" it has to all ready exist and the space station was not discovered, but made by man and put into space.