UNIVERSE
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
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first humans in space
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first moon probe launched
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happened same time
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neither happened
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first human in space was the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who made one orbit around Earth on April 12, 1961, on a flight that lasted 108 minutes.
Detailed explanation-2: -On Oct. 4, 1957, the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into space. Four years later on April 12, 1961, Russian Lt. Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth in Vostok 1.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vostok 1. On 12 April 1961, at 6:07 am UTC, the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Aboard was Gagarin, the first human to travel into space, using the call sign Kedr (, Siberian pine or cedar).
Detailed explanation-4: -The first artificial Earth satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957. The first human to go into space, Yuri Gagarin, was launched, again by the Soviet Union, for a one-orbit journey around Earth on April 12, 1961.
Detailed explanation-5: -Sputnik 1 was the first probe to go into space. It was launched on Oct. 4, 1957, by the former Soviet Union.
Detailed explanation-6: -The first probe to impact the surface of the Moon was the Soviet probe Luna 2, which made a hard landing on September 14, 1959, at 21:02:24 UTC.