Space History

Humans in space: past, present, future

by JoAnna Wendel

BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images

Humans have been visiting space since Yuri Gargarin became the first man in space on April 12, 1961.

John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962, and Ed White became the first American to conduct a space walk.

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