[DOC] [TLE] Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space | The Greatest Moments in Flight [PAR] Jul 24, 2012 ... On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first ... he 
launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). ... Only a few years 
later, he submitted his request to be considered as a cosmonaut. [DOC] [TLE] First man in space - Apr 12, 1961 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Apr 12, 1981 ... On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet ... the first man to orbit 
the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule ... The only statement 
attributed to Gagarin during his one hour and 48 minutes in space was, Flight is 
... (which launched the first satellite into space in 1957), the successes... [DOC] [TLE] Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia [PAR] Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was 
the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft 
completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. .... On 12 April 1961, the Vostok 
3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft with Gagarin aboard was launched from Baikonur 
Cosmodrome... [DOC] [TLE] NASA - Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space [PAR] Apr 13, 2011 ... April 12, 1961: Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space. ... in space, 
making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. [DOC] [TLE] Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr., May 5, 1961 | NASA [PAR] Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. sits in his Freedom 7 Mercury capsule, ready for 
launch. ... On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard Jr. became the first American in space 
when ... Glenn's three orbits in five hours was eclipsed on the next flight and each 
.... April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the first human 
in... [DOC] [TLE] Why Yuri Gagarin Remains the First Man in Space, Even Though He ... [PAR] Apr 12, 2010 ... The reasoning goes that since he did not land inside his spacecraft, he ... When 
Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth on 12 April 1961, the plan had never been for .... 
that the first man to actually go into space was on a sub-orbital flight. ... The facts 
are: Russians can not proof that Gagarin was actually in Vostok 1. [DOC] [TLE] History of Flight - THE FIRST MAN & WOMAN IN SPACE [PAR] Russia sends the first man and woman into space, but the United States is 
gearing ... Yuri Gagarin, a 27-year-old Russian, was the first person to fly in 
space. Although his flight on April 12, 1961 was only one orbit around the Earth, it 
was a ... and the first person to venture outside an orbiting space capsule (
Aleksei Leonov). [DOC] [TLE] STEP-BY-STEP TO THE MOONPart 3 Early Space Flights Dispel ... [PAR] Russia opened the age of man in space April 12, 1961. with a flight that ... than 
one orbit. ... Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter took his Aurora 7 capsule aloft May 24, 
1962, ... trail though space, Russia's cosmonauts stepped boldly from one first to 
... Vostok 3, carrying cosmonaut Andrian N i k o I a ye v , blasted into space first... [DOC] [TLE] Time Line of Space Exploration - RocketMime [PAR] January 2, 1959 - Luna 1, first man-made satellite to orbit the moon, ... April 12, 
1961 - Vostok 1 is launched by the U.S.S.R., carrying Cosmonaut Yuri A. 
Gargarin, ... 7 carries Alan B. Shepard,Jr., the first U.S. Astronaut into space, in a 
suborbital flight. ..... June 26, 1995 - Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvous with 
Russian space... [DOC] [TLE] 6 Surprising Facts About the First Manned Space Mission [PAR] Apr 6, 2011 ... The rocket carrying Gagarin's Vostok 1 spacecraft launched from Baikonur ... 
manned mission to space unless it included a manned landing, the Russians ... 
the Vostok 3KA-2, completed one low-Earth orbit carrying a life-size dummy ... 
Soviet Air Force pilot when he made his first and only trip into

Question: This Russian's one-orbit flight on April 12, 1961 was his first & only venture into space
Answer: Yuri Gagarin