First Man Into Space

Yuri Gagarin in Vostok I. not fun: To avoid Gagarin to assume manual control, the joystick has been locked. It's pretty typical of the early Soviet missions, humans were aboard a payload more than pilots. It was even worse for the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, she did not even have control.

Yuri Gagariun - Russia - Vostok has been the mission

Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, Alan Shepard was the first American in space, and John Glenn was the first man in orbit around the Earth.

Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space, he was Russian, and the mission was Vostok.