the first soviet who went to space in 1961 was alaxeyevich gagarin.
It was a male, the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on April 12,1961. The first woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, went on June 16th,1963.
Laika went to space in 1957 Answer by Nittish, 7 years old
The first ever American to go into outer space was astronaut John Glenn, who orbited the Earth aboard the capsule Friendship 7 on 20th February 1962, at the age of 41 years old.He went up again aboard the space shuttle Discovery on 29th October 1998, becoming the oldest person to fly in space at the age of 77! He has also served as a prominent US Senator for the Republican Party, and is 91 years old as of February 2013.
Helen Sharman was the first English WOMAN in space. She went up in Soyuz 12 on 18th May 1991 to visit the International Space Station
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The first human to go into space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut, who orbited Earth on April 12, 1961.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space on April 12, 1961. He was a Soviet astronaut. Alan Shepard was the first American astronaut in space on May 5, 1961, as part of the Mercury-Redstone 3 mission.
In 1961, the space race escalated as the Soviet Union launched the first human, Yuri Gagarin, into space aboard Vostok 1. This event was a significant achievement, with the USA intensifying efforts to catch up with the Soviet Union in space exploration.
No, The first American in space was Alan Shepard who went into space about a month after Yuri A. Gagarin (first man in space) did.
This was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who went into orbit aboard a Vostok 1 rocket on 12th April 1961.
The first man to go into space was Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut who orbited Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961.
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, was the first person to travel to space on April 12, 1961. He orbited Earth in the Vostok 1 spacecraft for approximately 108 minutes.
The first person to travel in space was Yuri Gagarin sent by Russia / the Soviet Union.
Yuri Gagarin. First American Alan Sheppard but did not orbit, that was John Glenn.
Joeseph Kittinger was the first man in space, he did so in 1960 as part of an Air Force experiment. ______________________________________________________________ He is Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin from the former Soviet Union (now Russia). The 27-year-old Soviet Air Force major made his flight Apr 12, 1961, lasting 108 minutes and orbiting Earth in a rocket-propelled, five-ton space capsule.
No, the first man went up after sputnik's launch. For more info, search "Yuri Gagagarin"
The first man in space was the Russian, Yuri Gagarin. He first went to space on the 12th of April, 1961.