Before revision: File:Yuri Gagarin Capsule and space suit (cropped).jpg|Yuri Gagarin was the first passenger on a spaceflight, the Vostok 1, first flight of the Vostok programme International co-operation The early space researchers obtained an important international forum with the establishment of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) in 1958, which achieved an exchange of scientific information between east and west during the cold war, despite the military origin of the rocket technology underlying the research field.Willmore, Peter: COSPAR’s first 50 years, Public Lecture Astronauts On April 12, 1961, Russian Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit Earth, in Vostok 1.
After revision: Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to travel in space International co-operation The early space researchers obtained an important international forum with the establishment of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) in 1958, which achieved an exchange of scientific information between east and west during the cold war, despite the military origin of the rocket technology underlying the research field.Willmore, Peter: COSPAR’s first 50 years, Public Lecture Astronauts On April 12, 1961, Russian Lieutenant Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit Earth, in Vostok 1.