who was the first person in space?
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Yuri Gagarin from the former Soviet Union in 1961
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_astronauts_by_name\n\nI really can't be bothered to count them for you! lol\n\nOf interest, Richard Gordon (Commander of Apollo 12) is my 1st cousin (twice removed).... :-)
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Armstrong, Neil Alden \n \n1930—, American astronaut, b. Wapakoneta, Ohio. A U.S. Navy fighter pilot during the Korean War, Armstrong subsequently became a test pilot for what was then the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics in 1955. In 1962, already a veteran of the X-15, Armstrong became a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronaut and served as command pilot of the Gemini 8 mission. As commander of Apollo 11 (July 16—24, 1969), he was the first person (July 20 EDST) to step on the moon, saying: "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." He taught aeronautical engineering at the Univ. of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979. In 1985, President Reagan appointed Armstrong to the National Commission on Space and in 1986 named him vice chairman of a panel to investigate the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger earlier that year
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Yuri Gagarin in Vostok I.  Amusing point: To prevent Gagarin from assuming manual control, the control stick was locked.  This was pretty typical of the early Soviet missions, the humans on board were more payload than pilots.  It was even worse for the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, she wasn't even given controls.
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Astronauts - Glenn, Schirra, and Carpenter. The other dead are, Grissom, Cooper, Slayton and Shephard.
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In 1898 the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed the idea of space exploration by rocket, he was the first one to suggest the use of liquid propellants for rockets in order to achieve greater range. He is the father of modern astronautics.  \n\nAfter him came Robert Goddard, he conducted practical experiments in rocketry and was the first one to build a successful liquid-propellant rocket in 1926.
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There are so many of them.  I'd like to shake the hand of Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, and find out first-hand what that experience was like.\n\nAnother who lived in my lifetime was John F. Kennedy.  He inspired us to ask what we can do for our country, and not just expect our country to do everything for us.\n\nIf I could pick any one person from history, it would have to be Jesus of Nazareth.  He single-handedly did more to change the course of human history than any other person.  We even number our years after him!
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Newton actually is the first to come up with the law of universal gravity, g*m(1)*m(2)/(d)squared.  So he's the first to measure gravity as a force, but Galileo is the first in western culture to measure it as an acceleration and conclude it was a constant.
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Mr. Spock's Vulcan Greeting - The sci-fi series STAR TREK/NBC/1966-69 introduced an alien character named Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) who was the Science Officer onboard the starship USS Enterprise. On his home planet of Vulcan, they had a special greeting. It consisted of a right  hand raised (palm facing away) with ring finger and middle finger spread to form a "V" shape. The first person to speak said "Peace and long life" and the other responded "Live long and prosper." Both hand gesture and phrase were used for greeting as well as parting company. The Vulcan greeting first appeared on the episode No. 44 "Journey to Babel" which introduced Spock's parents, Sarek (Mark Lenard) and Amanda, (Jane Wyatt). "Live Long and Prosper" were also the final words spoken by Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) before he died from radiation exposure in the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). When the Vulcans made initial contact with the human race in the motion picture First Contact (1996) the words "Live Long and Prosper" were the first words spoken as they exited their spacecraft. TRIVIA NOTE: The idea for the Vulcan hand sign on the series was contributed by Leonard Nimoy. The gesture (based on the Hebrew letter "Chim") dates back thousands of years as a special sign used by Hebrew priests during their religious ceremonies
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Vostok 1 took Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into orbit on April 12, 1961.
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Not sure who was the 'first' but the Egyptian Ptolemy left records that show he knew the Earth was a sphere.  He even calculated its circumference fairly accurately.\n\nWhere he was incorrect, of course, was proposing a geocentric view of the universe with the Earth in the middle and fairly complicated system of orbits to describe the movement of the various visible astronomical bodies.  It wouldn't be until Copernicus over a thousand years later, until this particular view was corrected.
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Yuri Gagarin, Astronaut \n\nBorn: 9 March 1934 \nBirthplace: Klushino, Russia \nDied: 27 March 1968 (airplane crash) \nBest Known As: The first human in space \nGagarin flew into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok I on 12 April 1961, becoming the first man in space. He orbited the Earth once (his capsule was controlled from the ground) before returning for a safe landing in the Soviet Union roughly 90 minutes later. The 1961 flight made him an international hero; he was awarded the Order of Lenin and made a deputy of the Soviet parliament, the Supreme Soviet. The flight was also considered a political victory for the Soviet Union; the United States didn't put a man into space until Alan Shepard's sub-orbital flight on 5 May 1961. Gagarin had graduated from the Soviet air force academy in 1957 and joined the cosmonaut corps in 1960. After his famous flight he remained in the cosmonaut corps and was killed while piloting an airplane on a training flight in 1968.\n\nOn his way to the launch pad in 1961, Gagarin stopped to empty his bladder. The act became a tradition with subsequent cosmonauts, who urinate on the back tire of the transport bus before their flights... Gagarin was preceded into space by a Russian dog, Laika.
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if i had to venture a guess, i would say carl sagan...am i close?????\n\nok, maybe not carl sagan, how about walter cronkite, possibly in walter cronkites universe???
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Laika the dog was the first living being to orbit the Earth in space.She was aboard Sputnik II when it was launched by the Soviet Union on 3 November 1957. (She was a mutt, probably part husky, who had been picked up as a stray.)\n\nLaika means "barker" in Russian... Though Laika is generally given credit as the first animal to visit outer space, other animals (including American mice and the Soviet test dogs Albina and Tsyganka) had earlier been sent on brief suborbital trips into space... Laika is also the name of an alternative rock band founded in the 1990s.\n\nYou can mor information in the link below.
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haha it will be professor x. he will use his power to stop hawking to be the first!!!!
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The first Americans to die in space were the crew of the space Shuttle Challenger, which exploded moments after takeoff January 28, 1986.\n\nThe first Americans to die as part of the Space Program were the crew of Apollo 1--Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee--who were killed when a fire broke out in their capsule atop the launch pad during pre-launch testing January 27, 1967.\n\nHere are links to both tragedies from NASA:
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The first rocket which could fly high enough to get into space was the V2 missile which was first launched by Germany in 1942. The first rocket which actually launched something into space was used to launch Sputnik, the first satellite, on October 4, 1957. The rocket that launched Sputnik was a R-7 ICBM rocket