The timeline of human spaceflight

The table below lists the first countries to send a human into space.

Country

Date of launch

Name

Spacecraft
USSR 1961 Yuri Gagarin Vostok-1
USA 1961 Alan Shepard Mercury-Redstone 3
Czechoslovakia 1978 Vladimír Remek Soyuz 28
Poland 1978 MirosΕ‚aw Hermaszewski Soyuz 30
East Germany 1978 Sigmund Jähn Soyuz 31
Countries that sent their citizen into space