First Person To Travel In Space

His flight on april 12 1961 lasted 108 minutes as he circled the earth for a little more than one orbit in the soviet union s vostok.
First person to travel in space. Search for crossword clues found in the daily celebrity ny times daily mirror telegraph and major publications. Find clues for first person to travel into space 7 or most any crossword answer or clues for crossword answers. His capsule vostok 1 completed one orbit of earth on 12 april 1961. At the time of writing this only 536 have ever been into space.
On april 12 1961 aboard the spacecraft vostok 1 soviet cosmonaut yuri alekseyevich gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. Answers for first person to travel into space 7 crossword clue. In 1961 he became the first american to travel into space and in 1971 he walked on the moon. November 18 1923 july 21 1998 was an american astronaut naval aviator test pilot and businessman.
Rear admiral alan bartlett shepard jr. We speak to the former astronaut about her incredible experience. First man in space april 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. During the flight the 27 year old test pilot and.
Kathryn sullivan the first american woman to walk in space has just become the first woman to reach the deepest point in the ocean. On that day in 1961 russian cosmonaut yuri gagarin left on the way to the launch pad became the first human in space making a 108 minute orbital flight in his vostok 1 spacecraft. Yuri gagarin was the first person to fly in space.