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The first person to orbit the Earth was the Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin.

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First human sent into space and first to orbit the earth?

Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.


Who was the first Soviet man to orbit the earth?

Yuri Gagarin, who was not only the first Russian but the first human to orbit the earth.


Who was the 1st human to orbit?

Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union was the first human to orbit the Earth.


Who was the first human in space during one orbit missionn?

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What was the first major space mission to put a human in orbit around the earth?

The Russian put the first man in earth orbit, he was Yuri Gagarin in the year 1961.


Was John Glenn the American to orbit the earth?

John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. The previous US flights had been sub-orbital. Yuri Gagarin of the USSR had earlier been the first human to orbit earth.


Who first orbited the earth?

Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961, was the first person to orbit the earth.


When was the first orbit of the earth?

Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit the Earth in 1962; that helped further the "space race."


Who is the first human on Pluto?

No human has ever been to Pluto. In fact, no human has ever been beyond the Earth's orbit.


Who was the first person to orbit earth in a spacecraft and what year did it happen?

On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin , a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.


Is russia the first country to go to space?

Yes, The first man-made object to orbit the Earth was the Soviet Sputnik launched on a converted ICBM in the International Geophysical Year. The first human to orbit the Earth was Soviet Yuri Gagarin who completed a 108 minute orbit in Vostok 1 in 1961. The first American to orbit the Earth was John Glenn in 1962.


Was john glen the first human to orbit the earth?

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