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First Humans in Space
This list features the first humans to ever go to space.
RANK | HUMAN | SPACESHIP | DATE | COUNTRY |
1 | Yury Gagarin | Vostok 1 | Apr. 12, 1961 | Soviet Union |
2 | Alan Shepard | Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) | May 5, 1961 | United States |
3 | Virgil Grissom | Liberty Bell 7 | July 21, 1961 | United States |
4 | Gherman Titov | Vostok 2 | Aug. 6, 1961 | Soviet Union |
5 | John Glenn | Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7) | Feb. 20, 1962 | United States |
6 | Scott Carpenter | Aurora 7 | May 24, 1962 | United States |
7 | Adriyan Nikolayev | Vostok 3 | Aug. 11, 1962 | Soviet Union |
8 | Pavel Popovich | Vostok 4 | Aug. 12, 1962 | Soviet Union |
9 | Walter Schirra | Sigma 7 | Oct. 3, 1962 | United States |
10 | Gordon Cooper | Faith 7 | May 15, 1963 | United States |
11 | Valery Bykovsky | Vostok 5 | Jun. 14, 1963 | Soviet Union |
12 | Valentina Tereshkova | Vostok 6 | June 16, 1963 | Soviet Union |
13 | Joseph Walker | X-15 Flight 90 | Jul. 19, 1963 | United States |
14 | Konstantin Feoktistov; Vladimir Komarov; Boris Yegorov | Voshkod 1 | Oct. 12, 1964 | Soviet Union |
15 | Aleksey Leonov; Pavel Belyayev | Voshkod 2 | Mar. 18, 1965 | Soviet Union |
16 | John Young | Gemini 3 | Mar. 23, 1965 | United States |
17 | James McDivitt; Edward White | Gemini 4 | Jun. 3, 1965 | United States |
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