Yuri Gagrin for the Russians on April 12, 1961
The first person to land on space was Neil Armstrong
The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.
The first person to orbit the earth was astronaut, John Glenn...
A Russian named Yuri Gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth. Alan Shepard was the first American in space and the second person to travel into space.
He was the first person to orbit the Earth.
The first person to orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, on April 12, 1961. He completed one orbit around Earth in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
first person to orbit the earth
The first person to orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut who completed a single orbit around the Earth on April 12, 1961 aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
The first person to orbit the Earth was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut. He accomplished this on April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1.
Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, was the first person to orbit the earth.
niel Armstrong
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.