Who was the first human in space?
Yuri Gagarin
Mirosław Hermaszewski
Neil Armstrong
Valentina Tereshkova
Answer
The first human to venture into space was the courageous Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin. On April 12, 1961, Gagarin embarked on a groundbreaking mission aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1. During his history-making flight, he accomplished one orbit around Earth, lasting approximately 108 minutes.
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