Who was the first human to enter space?

Question

Who was the first human to enter space?

Answer 1

Yuri Gagarin.

On 12 April 1961, he became the first human in space and the first to orbit the Earth. He received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in outer space.

Answer 2

Yuri Gagarin.

thought i would add a little extra reading -

MOJAVE, CALIFORNIA The first non-governmental rocket ship flew to the edge of space today and was piloted to a safe landing on a desert airport runway here.

Answer 3

The first human in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut, on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1 (one orbit around the Earth.

The first woman was cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk when he left the Voskhod 2 on March 8, 1965.

Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space on July 25, 1984.

The first American in space was Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 on May 5, 1961.

The first American in orbit was John Glenn on Friendship 7, which launched February 20, 1962.

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

Eileen Collins was the first female space shuttle pilot, and with mission STS-93 in July 1999 she became the first woman to command a U.S. spacecraft.

Answer 4

Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin from Russia was the first human being to enter outer space in April 1961. Alan Shepard was the first American to enter space, just a month later.

Answer 5

I like to think it was the high altitude balloon folks in the 1950s and early 60s==

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1997/Cass...

and some of them JUMPED out and the free fell for MILES----- in full pressure suits.