who is the first man to be in the space ?

Answer 1

The first person in space was Yuri Gagarin, who was launched into space on April 12, 1961 aboard Vostok 1. The first woman was Valentina Tereshkova, launched into space in June 1963 aboard Vostok 6.

Answer 2

Ok the first guy was Yuri Gagarin (yes the Russians beat the Yanks to it!) this was in 1961, I think. The second guy and the first 'free man' in space (read American) was Alan Shepard, as part of the Mercury Series of Space missions, this was in 1961 too, but after Gagarin.

Other interesting trivia :

John Glenn (now a US Senator I think) was the third man in space and the first guy to orbit the earth ( dunno how many orbits, but more than the previous guys).

The first man to do a space walk, i.e. get out of the spaceship in a spacesuit and float in space for a while was again a Russian - Alexei Leonov.

The first woman in sapce was a Russian again - Valentina Tereshkova.

First living thing to go to space was a Russian dog name Laika, but she did not return :( (Suicide mission it was)

First craft on the moon was Russian too called Luna. And ofcourse the first flag on the moon was that of the U.S.S.R (Russia) and not American!

Last guy to walk on the moon was Eugene Cernan, an American in December 1972

The only other country o put a man in space independently is China which put Yang Liwei a 'taikonaut' as the Chinese call it in space.

Countries with active space programs include the U.S., Russia, European Union, China and India.

Answer 3

YURI GAGARIN IS THE FIRST MAN TO BE IN THE SPACE
Yuri Gagarin-the world's first cosmonaut.
On 12 April, 1961, the first manned spaceship left our planet from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Soviet Union. This was the beginning, the blazing of a trail which has now become a road to the cosmos. One after another, spaceships are leaving earth for the wide expanses of the universe. Today, space pilots live and work for months aboard space stations, they fly to the moon; and Soviet and American spacemen have accomplished a joint experimental flight.
In the near future, perhaps, earthmen will go still further, journeying to other planets and universes. But alongside the names of these future explorers there will always rand the name of the first Soviet cosmonaut, for Yuri Gagarin's 108-minute flight in space represented not only a triumph of science and engineering, but also a bursting of the "bounds of possibility", the breaking of a psychological barrier. It was literally a flight into the unknown.
Being a pilot, he had flown many demanding assignments, including flights at night and in blizzard conditions, and at home they would wait anxiously for his familiar step. Even so, he was never very far from the earth. But now... He had gone out into the unknown where no man gad ever been before. Valentina, his wife, well understood all that this entailed but had agreed. And this, too, was an act of heroism for the mother of two small children.
...From Zvyozdny Gorodok (Star Town), Yuri had flown to the cosmodrome. It was quiet at his home. The children were asleep. The sky, washed by recent rain, was studded with stars. The night seemed to be waiting for something. The wet pines stood motionless, and the houses merged together in the stillness and bluish darkness. In only one of them shone a yellow rectangle of light...
"Am I happy to be setting off on a cosmic flight?" said Yuri Gagarin in an interview before the start. "Of course. In all ages and epochs people have experienced the greatest happiness in embarking upon new voyages of discovery... I want to dedicate this first cosmic flight to the people of communism-the society which the Soviet people are now already entering upon... I say 'until we meet again' to you , dear friends, as we always say to each other when setting off on a long journey. How I should like to embrace you all-my friends and those with whom I am not acquainted, strangers and the people nearest and dearest to me!"

Answer 4

Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Vladimir Ilyushin in 1961. He was injured during the flight and so the next man, 5 days later, in space Yuri Gagarin was the first "official" man in space as the Soviets did not want to publicize they injured the first man.

Answer 5

Yuri Gagarin (Russian) was the first man in space. Valentina Tereshkova (Russian) was the first woman in space. The first American man in space was Alan Shepard. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride. John Glenn is known for being the first American to orbit the earth, and Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon (Out of anyone. The Russians didn't beat us to that).

Answer 6

Yuri Alexseyevich Gagarin first man in space in Vostok 1 on April 12th 1961. Time in space 1 hour 48 minutes, 1 orbit of the earth. He was only 5 foot 2 inches tall and was chosen partly because of his height as it was a small capsule.

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first woman in space in Vostok 6 on June 16th 1963. Time in space: 2 days 22 hours 50 minutes. She was one of 5 women chosen for cosmonaut training,

The others were: Tatiana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovyova, Zhanna Yerkina and Valentina Ponomareva. Qualifications included that they be parachutists under 30 years of age, under 170 cm tall and under 70 kg in weight.

Answer 7

Russian cosmonaut : Yuri Alekseivich Gagarin

Answer 8

The man was Yuri Gagarin in Sputnik 1

Answer 9

Yuri Gagarin

Answer 10

Yuri Gagarin