Who was the first American in space? We are having a dispute.?

Question

Was it an American who was the first man in space?

Who was the first person in space?

Answer 1

The first American in space was Alan Shepard in 1961.

Answer 2

Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space April 12,  1961 Vostok 1.

Alan Shepard was the second but did not orbit only suborbital flight May 5, 1961 Freedom 7 same with Virgil "Gus" Grissom the third man in space July 21, 1961 Liberty Bell 7.

John Glenn was the 5th man in space and first american to orbit February 20, 1962 Friendship 7.

Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon followed by Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11 July 20, 1969.

Alan Shepard the second man in space also walking on the moon on Apollo 14.

Chuck Yeager  never flew on the X-15.  Joe Walker was the only X-15 pilot to fly over 100 kilometers (the edge of space) which he did twice (July 19, 1963 and August 22, 1963) and he did that way after the inital space flights.

Answer 3

Alan Shepard was the first American in space.  Although he did not orbit the Earth - he just went up far enough to be above the atmosphere and then came back down.

John Glenn was the first American to actually orbit the Earth.

Russian Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin, was the first human to orbit the Earth.

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Answer 4

First American in Space

Alan B. Shepard Jr. (1923-1998) piloted America's first manned space mission. This astronaut briefly flew into space on May 5, 1961, in Freedom 7, a Mercury space capsule. The capsule splashed down at sea and was retrieved by helicopter. Shepard also piloted Apollo XIV to the moon, accompanied by Edgar D. Mitchell and Stuart A. Roosa. They took off on January 31, 1971. Shepard and Mitchell landed on the moon in the lunar module (landing near the Fra Mauro Crater) on February 5, 1971, while Roosa orbited the moon in the command module. Shepard hit golf balls on the moon during this historic trip

First Person in Space

Colonel Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin (March 9,1934 - March 27, 1968) was a Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space.

Gagarin piloted the Vostok 1 mission which launched April 12, 1961. His flight lasted 108 minutes and orbited the Earth once. The spacecraft was recovered later that day in the Saratov region of the Soviet Union.

Answer 5

No, the Americans were not first in the space race milestones until they landed Apollo 11 on the moon in 1969.

The first human in space, the first space walk, the first woman in space -  they were all Russian.

The first human in space (and the first to orbit the Earth) was Russian Yuri Gagarin in 1961.

The first American in space was Alan Shepard later in 1961.

The first human to orbit the Earth multiple times was American John Glenn in 1962.

The first woman in space was Russian  Valentina Tereshkova in 1963.

The first person to walk in space was Russian Alexei Leonov in 1965.

The first American woman in space was Sally Ride in 1983.

The first woman to walk in space was Russian Svetlana Savitskaya in 1984.

Answer 6

The first American in space was John Glenn. The first person was a Russian, Yuri Gagarin.

Answer 7

It depends upon what you mean

Alan Shepherd was the first American to lift above the atmosphere in a sub-orbital flight, John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth.

Answer 8

Alan Shepard american

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space

Answer 9

Alan Shepard was the first American. John Glenn was the first American to Oribt the Earth.

Answer 10

First American in space - Alan Shepard on May 5, 1961, in the Freedom 7 spacecraft.

First person in space -  Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961 he became the first human to orbit Earth. Gagarin's spacecraft was named Vostok 1.

Answer 11

As some posters have mentioned, it was the Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin who was the first man in space. However, I would like to mention that I was in elementary school when the space race was going on and the accomplishments of the Soviets were never talked about in the classroom. That was because they were our rivals at the time. Even the first satellite, Sputnik, was barely mentioned. I didn't find out until after I had graduated from high school that it was Yuri Gagarin who was the first man in space. I was always told that it was Alan Shephard.

Answer 12

russian, our space program was in responce to a flight made by a man named Yury