The first human spaceflight ever was an orbital flight. Yuri Gagarin launched on his single-orbit trip on Vostock 1 on April 12, 1961.
The Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in the Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.
The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
The first person to orbit the earth was astronaut, John Glenn...
John Glenn
Yes !
Yuri Gagarin
1962
He was the first person to orbit the Earth.
John Glenn.(We're almost certain that he was the first American to orbit the earth in anything,since we can't think of any other way to do it other than in a space vehicle.)
first person to orbit the earth
niel Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin, from the USSR.
John Glenn, now a US Senator from Ohio, was the first American to orbit the earth, but not the first person. That distinction went to Yuri Gagarin of the USSR.