Humanity's firsts in space
The top 3 according to 0 votes from people: Yuri Gagarin, first human in space (1961) · Alan Shepard, first American in space (1961) · John Glenn, first American in orbit (1962). (Updated Apr 11, 2026.)
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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Top 15
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Yuri Gagarin, first human in space (1961)
108 minutes in orbit aboard Vostok 1.
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Alan Shepard, first American in space (1961)
A 15-minute suborbital flight.
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John Glenn, first American in orbit (1962)
Three orbits aboard Friendship 7.
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Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space (1963)
Aboard Vostok 6.
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Alexei Leonov, first spacewalk (1965)
Twelve minutes outside Voskhod 2.
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Apollo 8, first humans around the Moon (1968)
Borman, Lovell and Anders and the Earthrise photo.
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Neil Armstrong, first step on the Moon (1969)
Apollo 11's "small step".
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Soyuz 11, first crew on a station (1971)
Three cosmonauts aboard Salyut 1, who died on re-entry.
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The first Space Shuttle flight (1981)
Young and Crippen aboard Columbia.
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Svetlana Savitskaya, first woman to spacewalk (1984)
More than three hours outside Salyut 7.
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Dennis Tito, first space tourist (2001)
A week on the International Space Station.
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Yang Liwei, first Chinese astronaut (2003)
On Shenzhou 5.
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SpaceX Demo-2, first crewed private spacecraft (2020)
Two NASA astronauts aboard Crew Dragon.
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Inspiration4, first all-civilian crew (2021)
Four civilians in orbit for three days.
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Polaris Dawn, first private spacewalk (2024)
Jared Isaacman steps out of Crew Dragon.
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