2006-08-07 08:33:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yuri Akexseyevich Gagarin, a Soviet Air Force Colonel and former pilot, was a Soviet cosmonaut who on April 12th 1961 in Vostok 1 became the first human in space and the first human to orbit the Earth. He made one orbit of the Earth and was in space for 1 hour 46 minutes.
2006-08-07 10:49:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Lefang, you are probably thinking of Andrei Titov, who was the Russian's second man in space.
But Gagarin was both the first man in space and the first man in orbit. In the US, we did parabolic missions first (Shepard and Grissolm), with our third man in space becoming our first man in orbit (Glenn).
The Russians were always a good deal more go-for-broke than we were, which is why they lost at least one man trying to get that first-in-space title.
2006-08-07 16:21:47 · answer #2 · answered by TychaBrahe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides being the first man in space?
Womanizing, drinking... Funny story:
He got caught with the house maid by his wife and jumped out the 2cd story window to get away from her. Landed right on his face and basically cut off his left eyebrow. Russian doctors sewed on a prosthetic... but the eyebrow never looked the same. See some of his later pictures and you WILL notice.
2006-08-07 17:35:05 · answer #3 · answered by AresIV 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being the first man in space
2006-08-07 15:37:47 · answer #4 · answered by Ella S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first man in space.
2006-08-07 16:55:48 · answer #5 · answered by kano7_1985 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first man to orbit the earth, not the first man in space that acolade went to another russian ,but i cant for the life of me remember his namej
2006-08-07 16:18:04 · answer #6 · answered by lefang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first man in space...didnt u ever hear of him...or u thought i was a fool??
2006-08-08 07:27:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋