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Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin was the very first live human being to ever go into space. His source of transportantion was Vostok 1 spacecraft. He was a Russian cosmonaut, he orbited the Earth one time and was 200 miles up. Yuri Gagarin stated while in space " The Earth is blue". -
Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard was the second person in space, he piloted the Freedom 7 and was launched by a Redstone rocket. He was the first American person in space. -
Virgil Ivan Grissom
Virgil Ivan Grissom, is also known as Gus Grissom was the third person to go into space, and the second American. He flew twice in his career, he was the first in NASA Astronaut Corps to fly twice. He was abord the Libery Bell 7 for one of his flights but it was unsucessful. -
Gherman Stepanovich Titov
Gherman Stepanovich Titov was the fourth person in space, he was German and became the second person to orbit Earth. He traveled in Vostok 2 on August 6,1961. -
John Glenn
John Glenn orbied the Earth 3 times traveling on Friendship 7. His trip to space was not the longest out of the first five space travelers. He was the first ever to orbit the Earth. He was also the oldest man to go into space. -
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Carpenter was an American test pilot and astronout that orbited the Earth aboard Friendship 7. He was part of NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959, he was also the backup pilot for John Glenn. He was the second American to orbit Earth and the fourth American to go into space. He was the sixth person to go into space. -
Andrian Nikolayev
Nikolayev was aboard Vostok 3, an endurance record was set by Nikolayev. He spent a total of 4 days in space while aboard that mission. He was a cosmonaut who was on two different missions, he was in space for a total of 204 hours. He was the seventh person to go into space. -
Pavel Popovich
Pavel Popovich flew in the first group space craft in 1962. He was flying aboard Vostok 4. The space craft he was on came within 5 miles of another space craft, Vostok 3. This was his first mission, his second was in 1974, he was commander on Soyuz 14. -
Walter Schirra
Walter Schirra was an American astronaut who has spent 300 hours in space on has been on three space missions. He traveled on Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo; he was the only astronaut at that time to be on three different trips. His first flight was on Mercury 8 though. -
Leroy Gordon Cooper
Gordon Cooper was the pilot of the last Mercury mission in 1963. Gordon set an endurance record too while on this mission, he was the first American astronaut to ever sleep while in space. On his other mission he proved that a human being could actually live and survive in space for 8 day, which is how ling it takes to get to the moon.
