FACT FILES // 1 OF 5

Yuri Gagarin

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First person to reach space.• First person in orbit.

9 March 193412 April 1961One1 hr, 48 minsUSSR

FACT FILES // 2 OF 5

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First American in space.• First person to make suborbital flight.• First person to pilot a craft in space.

18 November 19235 May 1961Two9 days 0 hrs 57 minsAmerican

Alan Shepard

FACT FILES // 3 OF 5

Neil Armstrong

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• NASA's first civilian astronaut in space.• First “one small step” on the Moon.• First planetary surface EVA.

05 August 193016 March 1966Two8 days, 14 hrs, 12 minsAmerican

FACT FILES // 4 OF 5

BruceMcCandless II

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First untethered spacewalk.

08 June 193703 February 1984Two13 days 0 hrs 31 minsAmerican

FACT FILES // 5 OF 5

Alexei Leonov

Date of BirthFirst SpaceflightNumber of MissionsTotal Time in Space Nationality

Space Firsts• First human to conduct a spacewalk.• Commanded Soyuz in the Soyuz–Apollo

mission (end of the Space Race).

30 May 193418 March 1965Two7 days 00 hrs 33 minsUSSR