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Astronaut is the term the US uses for a person who goes into space, cosmonaut is the Russian term.
The first astronaut to fly into space was Alan Shepard, who flew the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 on a 15-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. However, the first person to fly in space was Yuri Gagarin, who orbited the earth three times on April 12, 1961. Although this was 23 days before Shepard's flight, since Gagarin flew on Soviet spacecraft he was a cosmonaut, not an astronaut.
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∙ 13y agoYuri Gagarin. Apollo 11 was the first crew of astronauts to reach another solar body. The crew was Neil Armstrong (first man to set foot on the moon), Commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and , Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.
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∙ 12y agoThe first person in space was Yuri Gagarin.
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∙ 15y agoThe first person sent into space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.
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∙ 14y agoTechnically, Russian Cosmonauts were the first in space. Yuri Gagaren was the first Cosmonaut in space while John Glenn was the first Astronaut in space.
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∙ 10y agoYuri Gagarin was the first astronaut to travel in space.
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∙ 15y agoYuri Gagarin
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