Name the first journalist who went to the space?
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Toyohiro Akiyama from Japan\n\nHere's a reference for you to check.\n\n"He was selected as a candidate to become an astronaut for a special TBS mission onboard the Mir Space Station in 1989. After undergoing training for spaceflight, he was selected as finalist and accomplished the mission from December 2 through 10, 1990, becoming the first Japanese astronaut and the first journalist astronaut in the world."\nhttp://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_pleasure_of_spaceflight.shtml
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the national inquirer or gossips magazine\nor  good science fiction books
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<<Christa McAuliffe was chosen to be the first school teacher to go into outer space.\nBorn in Boston, she moved with her family to Framingham, Massachusetts, soon after being born.\nHer father was working on a degree program at Boston College and had just taken a new job in a Boston department store.\nAs a youngster, she grew up excitedly watching the growth of space exploration.\nShe met her future husband, Steve McAuliffe, while attending high school.\nFollowing high school, she enrolled in Framingham State College earning a degree in History.\nSoon after, she and Steve were married and moved to Maryland so he could attend law school in Washington, D.C.\nOver the next period of time, the couple had two children, and Christa earned a Master's degree in School Administration.\nShe worked as a teacher at the Bow Memorial School and then Concord High School.\nChrista was a very respected teacher and community member and was encouraged to apply to become the first "Teacher in Space."\nShe competed against doctors, authors, and scholars and was chosen as she seemed best to represent an ordinary teacher. \nThroughout her astronaut and NASA training period, she became an inspiration in the eyes of the public and the teaching profession.\nUnfortunately, the Space Shuttle she and her fellow crew members were in exploded after only 73 seconds in flight. \nChrista was to have given two teaching lessons while in flight dealing with the shuttle and outer space exploration.\nChrista McAuliffe still inspires teachers and students such that a number of schools have been named after her.>>
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On its final mission, the craft was carrying the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, and the first female astronaut of Indian birth, Kalpana Chawla. Other crew members on the final flight included Rick Husband (commander), Willie McCool (pilot), Michael P. Anderson, Laurel Clark, and David M. Brown.
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On July 20, 1969, Commander Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. He said the historic words, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."\n\nA camera in the Lunar Module provided live television coverage as Neil Armstrong climbed down the ladder to the surface of the moon.
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Dr. Sally Kristen Ride\n\nshe went to the space in shuttle Challenger June 18, 1983. She rode Challenger to space again, a year later
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ask Neil Alden Armstrong or Buzz Eugene Aldrin
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“Buzz” Aldrin\n\n\nSix hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the “Small Step” into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named “Eagle,” onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him.\n\nHe was shortly joined by “Buzz” Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module “Columbia,” in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the Moon
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1967 Apr 24 - Crash of Soyuz 1. Cosmonaut Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov is killed at age 40. Return Crew: Komarov, Nation: USSR.
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carl sagan said it first
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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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Have you checked Space.com?
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Go to space.com news and search on mercury or any other planet.
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Here's a selection of first person in space from various nations around the world.\n\nYuri Gagarin - Soviet Union\nAlan Shepard - United States\nVladimír Remek - Czechoslovakia\nBertalan Farkas - Hungary\nJean-Loup Chrétien- France\nRakesh Sharma - India\nSalman al-Saud - Saudia Arabia\nRodolfo Neri Vela - Mexico\nToyohiro Akiyama - Japan\nHelen Sharman - United Kingdom\nIlan Ramon - Israel\nYáng Lìwěi - China
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The first person that came to mind was Stephen King. Good question, but I don't know.
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many astronauts have reported seeing UFO's.  The Edge of Reality by J. Allen Hynek and Jacques Vallee, (Regenery: Chicago, 1975)  might be a worthwhile place to begin a search on the details.