# Humanity's firsts in space

The first man, the first woman, the first spacewalk, the first step on the Moon and the first tourist: the milestones of human space exploration. Which one moves you most?

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- Apr 11, 2026 · Enrico
- https://even.best/en/l/3010/humanity-s-firsts-in-space

## Top 15

1. **Yuri Gagarin, first human in space (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — 108 minutes in orbit aboard Vostok 1.
2. **Alan Shepard, first American in space (1961)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A 15-minute suborbital flight.
3. **John Glenn, first American in orbit (1962)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three orbits aboard Friendship 7.
4. **Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space (1963)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Aboard Vostok 6.
5. **Alexei Leonov, first spacewalk (1965)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Twelve minutes outside Voskhod 2.
6. **Apollo 8, first humans around the Moon (1968)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Borman, Lovell and Anders and the Earthrise photo.
7. **Neil Armstrong, first step on the Moon (1969)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Apollo 11's "small step".
8. **Soyuz 11, first crew on a station (1971)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three cosmonauts aboard Salyut 1, who died on re-entry.
9. **The first Space Shuttle flight (1981)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Young and Crippen aboard Columbia.
10. **Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to spacewalk (1984)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — More than three hours outside Salyut 7.
11. **Dennis Tito, first space tourist (2001)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A week on the International Space Station.
12. **Yang Liwei, first Chinese astronaut (2003)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — On Shenzhou 5.
13. **SpaceX Demo-2, first crewed private spacecraft (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two NASA astronauts aboard Crew Dragon.
14. **Inspiration4, first all-civilian crew (2021)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Four civilians in orbit for three days.
15. **Polaris Dawn, first private spacewalk (2024)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jared Isaacman steps out of Crew Dragon.

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