Who was the first man that went to space?
By Zebrochka
@Zebrochka (333)
Brazil
February 11, 2007 2:37pm CST
I was wondering about how much MyLot users know about the history of space discoveries.
Do you know who was the first human being that went up into space on a rocket?
5 responses
@abroji (3247)
• India
21 Feb 07
Yuri Gagarin was the first cosmonaut to enter the space. He was a citizen of th USSR. It is an irony that the first successful space traveller later lost his life in a road accident.
@Zebrochka (333)
• Brazil
21 Feb 07
I am sorry, but Yuri Gagarin didn´t lose his life in a road accident.
He lost his life in a result of an airplane crash. He was testing a new airplane, something went wrong, and the thing crashed in the outskirts of Moscow, nor far from the secret military airport.
I have been there. Today there is a monument at the place of the crash.
@Zebrochka (333)
• Brazil
12 Feb 07
Yes, he was Russian, his first name was Yuriy :-)
Before there was a soviet dog Laika, also there was Belka and Strelka... there were many dogs...:-)
@elusivedarkness (531)
• United States
11 Feb 07
It was a Russian dude Yuri Gagarin. Then shortly after the Americans put John Glen into orbit.
@Zebrochka (333)
• Brazil
11 Feb 07
Thanks guys!
You impressed me with your knowledge :-)
It was the Russian consmonaut Yuriy Gagarin who was the first man who ever went into space in 1961.
One year later it was the American astranaut John Glenn who went up.
