who was the first person who went into space
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Who was the first person in space? The first person to travel in space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin (1934-1968). His achievement brought prestige to the Soviet Union. Gagarin orbited the Earth in the spaceship Vostok I, which was launched April 12, 1961, in a flight lasting one hour and forty-eight minutes.
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Who were the first people to go to outer space? American Alan Shepard was the second person in space on May 5th 1961. John Glenn was the first American to go into orbit round the earth-on Feb 20th 1962. Glenn is still alive (born in 1921) but Shepard died of leukaemia in 1998, and Gagarin was killed in an aircraft crash in 1968.
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Who was the first person in space? The first US astronaut into space was Alan Shepard, who m … ade a suborbital flight on May 5, 1961. This was followed by another suborbital flight by Gus Grissom, and by a three-orbit flight by John Glenn on February 20, 1962. The US astronauts were part of NASA's Project Mercury.
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First Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong was the first person out of the lunar module. He climbed down a ladder and then became the first person to set foot on the moon at 10:56 p.m. EDT. Armstrong then stated, That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind..
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Astronomy for Kids 1 He was the first human to travel into outer space and orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Vostok spacecraft when it successfully orbited the Earth in 1961.  Gus Grissom (1926 - 1967) - Gus Grissom was the second American to travel to space aboard the Liberty Bell 7.
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Yuri Gagarin First man in space. On 12 April 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space when he orbited the Earth once during a 108 minute flight. In 1960 Gagarin, a fighter pilot, was shortlisted for the Vostok 1 programme, which built on the success of Sputnik 1 just three years earlier.
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Timeline of United States history Vehicle commander Alan ShepardGagarin's achievement launched a new era in the history of mankind. Further manned space flights occurred in quick succession. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard piloted the Freedom 7 spacecraft and became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space.
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Space Firsts in Exploration History August 30, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off with Guion Guy Bluford, Jr., the first African American in space. The first African-American woman in space: Mae Jemison lifted off in the space shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992, first African American woman in space. The first space walk: Alexei Leonov, a Soviet cosmonaut, was the first person to step outside of his spacecraft while in space, on March 18, 1965.
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- Russian Yuri Gagarin, on 12 April 1961, became the first man to travel into space in Vostok 1 for a 108 minute orbital flight. American Alan Shepard was the second person in space on May 5th 1961.
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- On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space, after cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov and the sub-orbital flights of Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom.
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Space Race By 1959, American observers believed that the Soviet Union would be the first to get a human into space, because of the time needed to prepare for Mercury's first launch. On April 12, 1961, the USSR surprised the world again by launching Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit around the Earth in a craft they called Vostok 1.ith the Cold War as an engine for change in the ideological competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, a coherent space policy began to take shape in the United States during the late 1950s.
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When did Russia first send a dog into space? When did Russia send their first man into space? The first man in space was a Russian named Yuri Gagarin. The Russians sent him into space on April 12, 1961 in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
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Guion S. Bluford Biography.com As a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle 'Challenger' in 1983, Guion S. Bluford became the first African American to travel into space. Synopsis Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1942, Guion S. Bluford was a decorated Air Force pilot in Vietnam before joining NASA in the late 1970s. In 1983, he became the first African American to travel into space when he served as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
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Yuri Gagarin On 12 April 1961, the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft with Gagarin aboard was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gagarin thus became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth. His call sign was Kedr (Russian: кедр, Siberian pine or Cedar).
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Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space | The Greatest Moments in Flight The Russians scored a victory when they launched a small craft carrying cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to new heights. His 108-minute flight gave him a permanent place in the history books as the first man in space.
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The first American in space On February 5, 1971, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, became the fifth astronaut to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission.
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First African American in space U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford becomes the first African American to travel into space when the space shuttle Challenger lifts off on its third mission.
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Project Apollo: A Retrospective Analysis April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Newspapers like The Huntsville Times (right) trumpeted Gagarin's accomplishment.
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Space exploration Gagarin's flight resonated around the world; it was a demonstration of the advanced Soviet space program and it opened an entirely new era in space exploration: human spaceflight. The U.S. first launched a person into space within a month of Vostok 1 with Alan Shepard's suborbital flight in Mercury-Redstone 3. Orbital flight was achieved by the United States when John Glenn's Mercury-Atlas 6 orbited Earth on 20 February 1962.
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Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon In 1962, Armstrong was selected with NASA's second group of astronauts, who flew on the two-seat Gemini missions to test out space technology, and the three-seat Apollo missions that ultimately took 12 people to the surface of the moon. Armstrong's first flight was the command pilot of the Gemini 8 mission in March 1966, the sixth crewed mission of that series.
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Yuri Gagarin First man in space. On 12 April 1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space when he orbited the Earth once during a 108 minute flight. In 1960 Gagarin, a fighter pilot, was shortlisted for the Vostok 1 programme, which built on the success of Sputnik 1 just three years earlier. German Titov was Gagarin's closest rival for selection-both men tried to impress space programme director Sergei Korolev.
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Who was the first black person in space? Guion Guy Bluford became the first black person to go into space. He was on the Space Shuttle Challenger's STS 8 mission, launched on August 30, 1983. The first black wo…man was Mae Jemison.  Guion Guy Bluford was NOT the 1st Black Person in space, he WAS the 1st African-American.
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Women In Space: 50 Years Of Female Astronauts, Cosmonauts (PHOTOS) Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly to space when she launched on the Vostok 6 mission June 16, 1963.
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- ESA astronauts. The first European astronaut flew in space in 1983 and the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne has been training men and women for missions since 1998. The first European to serve a tour of duty on the International Space Station was Umberto Guidoni who visited the Station in April 2001.
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Space exploration Steps towards putting a human-made object into space were taken by German scientists during World War II while testing the V-2 rocket, which became the first human-made object in space on 3 October 1942 with the launching of the A-4.