The first person to orbit Earth in a spacecraft was John Glenn. Yuri Gagarin. Neil Armstrong. Nikita Khrushchev.

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Shannon Richardson

29 March, 17:01

The first person to orbit Earth in a spacecraft was John Glenn. Yuri Gagarin. Neil Armstrong. Nikita Khrushchev.

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Hadley Myers · Answer 1

the correct answer is b) Yuri Gagarin

Explanation:

most people will be getting it confused, Neil Armstrong was the first person to travel to the moon but not the first to orbit the earth. that title goes to Yuri Gagarin

Halle Schwartz · Answer 2

The correct answer would be option B, Yuri Gagarin.

Explanation:

The first person ever to orbit around Earth was Yuri Gagarin. He was a Soviet Air Forces Pilot and Cosmonaut. He born in 1934 and died in 1968.

He was the first person to ever go to outer space on his Vostok 1 spacecraft which orbited around the Earth on 12th April, 1961.

He was awarded with many honorary medals. He was also rewarded with the nation's highest honor which is 'Hero of the Soviet Union'.

He became the cultural hero of the Soviet Union.

Gagarin died in a crash but is still remembered for completing a revolutionary mission.