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2006-08-28 03:33:39 · 13 answers · asked by The Chancellor™ 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
the first person in space was Yuri Gagarin.the russian astronaut.do you know - he was just 5`2.the first animal in space was a female dog named Laika.
2006-08-28 03:45:43 · answer #1 · answered by viny 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's been rumored that Chuck Yeager took a peak into space in 1947 while flying the Bell X-1 when he first broke the sound barrier. Here's a quote from The Right Stuff:
The X-1 had gone through "the sonic wall" without so much as a bump. As the speed topped out at Mach 1.05, Yeager had the sensation of shooting straight through the top of the sky. The sky turned a deep purple and all at once the stars and the moon came out - the sun shone at the same time. ... He was simply looking out into space. ...
2006-08-28 13:22:56 · answer #2 · answered by fenwick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OFFICIALLY, Yuri Gagarin, but there has been a small and persistent rumor-- could be an urban legend, but you know what Stalin was like-- that the first man launched into space was a custodian who had been so unfortunate as to displease the Premier. Supposedly they assigned him to clean the capsule that a dog or chimp was supposed to be launched in and then locked him in it.
UNLESS you count the 'Man High' experiments done by the US in the late fifties, where a capsule was lifted above (most of) the atmosphere by helium weather baloons. At an altitude of over eighteen miles, it was effectively in vacuum. Not in free fall, though.
2006-08-28 10:50:48 · answer #3 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uirii Gagarin
2006-08-28 12:02:33 · answer #4 · answered by Bogdan Z 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First person to orbit the Earth in space was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
2006-08-28 10:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, a soviet cosmonaut, was the first man to go in space in 1961
2006-08-28 10:48:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Ogam the Magnificent, First Uber Lord of Atlantis, before the "Great Destruction" in the sixth century B.C.
2006-08-28 14:36:06 · answer #7 · answered by lampoilman 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If earthlings include any species of animal, then it may have been Leica, a soviet german shepherd. There was no way to recover her (bring her back to Earth)... She died in space.
I believe there is a commemoration every year in respect to her.
2006-08-28 10:52:34 · answer #8 · answered by Blues Man 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Inuit shamans were first to go to the moon.
2000 years ago.
and they made discovery, that there was oil under the earth, before white man discovery it. 1000's of years ago
2006-08-28 12:33:31 · answer #9 · answered by qulliqqulliaq 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first 'earthling' was Lyca(a dog) if you include animals. If not, well, it was Yuri Gagrin(soviet cosmonaut).
2006-08-28 12:17:09 · answer #10 · answered by sakura 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋