Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev, Vladislav Volkov died June 30th 1971
when the Crew of Soyuz 11 was exposed to vacuum of space.. Soyuz 11
(Russian: Союз 11, Union 11) was the first successful visit to the world's first
space station, Salyut 1. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule
depressurised during preparations for re-entry, killing the three-man crew. This
accident resulted in the only human deaths to occur in space (as opposed to high
atmosphere).
A human was first put into space in April, 1961.
Russia first sent a human into space on 12 April, 1961. The pilot and sole traveller Yuri Gagarin was also the first ever human in space.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human in space.
The Soviet Union was the first country to launch a human into space. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961.
Yuri Gagarin was the first human both sent to space and also to orbit the Earth.
Comanaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space. He travelled aboard Vostok 1 on April 12th 1961.
The first human to ever be clearly and unambigously "in space" was Yuri Gagarin.
Yuri Gagarin
Russia
Yuri Gagarin i think? Yes: Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space and the first to orbit the earth on April 12, 1961.
Well, the Soviet Union put the first artificial satellite into space, the first dog into space, and the first human into space.
The first space traveler was the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, in 1961.