On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to orbit the Earth. More Space History 👉https://trib.al/Ed4gMG7 This was the Soviet Union's next big move in the "space race" after it launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. His mission was called Vostok 1, and it involved both a Vostok rocket and Vostok space capsule. He lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and reached an altitude of about 200