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On April 7, 2011 United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring April 12 as the International Day of Human Space Flight.*Space Exploration commemorative US Stamps.
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The first human in space was Soviet Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, who was launched into space on April 12, 1961 aboard Vostok 1 and orbited around the Earth for 108 minutes.
The first woman in space was Soviet Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, who launched on June 16, 1963 aboard Vostok 6 and orbited Earth for almost three days.
Cosmonautics Day (Russian: День Космона́втики) is a holiday celebrated in Russia and some other former USSR countries on April 12. This holiday celebrates the first manned space flight made on April 12, 1961 by the 27-year-old Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin circled the Earth for 1 hour and 48 minutes aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. Coincidentally, it is also the anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch that occurred 20 years after the historic Vostok flight.
Alan Shepard became the first American and second person in space on May 5, 1961 on a 15-minute sub-orbital flight.
In 1962 John Herschel Glenn Jrhe became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962.
In 1983 the first American woman in space wasSally Ride, during Space Shuttle Challenger's mission STS-7, on June 18, 1983.
In 1984 Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya, she became the.first woman to fly on a space station (Salyut 7, 1982). first woman to perform a spacewalk (July 25, 1984). first woman to make two spaceflights.
In 1965 Alexey Arkhipovich Leonovhe became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity (EVA), exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk on March 1965.
In 1992 Mae Jemison became the first African American woman to travel in space aboard STS-47.
In 1994 Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova — Soyuz TM-20/STS-84, she became the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994. She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station.
The first manned mission to orbit the moon, Apollo 8, included American William Anders who was born in Hong Kong, making him the first Asian-born astronaut in 1968.
In April 1985, Taylor Wang became the first ethnic Chinese person in space.
On 15 October 2003, Yang Liwei became China's first astronaut on the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft.
The Soviet Union, through its Intercosmos program, allowed people from other "socialist" (i.e. Warsaw Pact and other Soviet-allied) countries to fly on its missions. An example is Vladimír Remek, a Czechoslovak, who became the first non-Soviet European in space in 1978 on a Russian Soyuz-U rocket.
On July 23, 1980, Pham Tuan of Vietnam became the first Asian in space when he flew aboard Soyuz 37.
Also in 1980, Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez became the first person of Hispanic and black African descent to fly in space, Guion Bluford became the first African American to fly into space.
The first person born in Africa to fly in space was Patrick Baudry, in 1985.
In 1985, Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin AbdulAziz Al-Saud became the first Arab Muslim astronaut in space.
In 1988, Abdul Ahad Mohmand became the first Afghan to reach space, spending nine days aboard the Mir space station.
With the larger number of seats available on the Space Shuttle, the U.S. began taking international astronauts. In 1983, Ulf Merbold of West Germany became the first non-US citizen to fly in a US spacecraft. In 1984, Marc Garneau became the first of 8 Canadian astronauts to fly in space (through 2010).
In 1985, Rodolfo Neri Vela became the first Mexican-born person in space.
United States Terence Henricks — STS-44, STS-55, STS-70, STS-78
Poland Miroslaw Hermaszewski — Soyuz 30
United States José Hernández — STS-128
United States John Herrington— STS-113
United States Richard Hieb — STS-39, STS-49, STS-65
United States Joan Higginbotham — STS-116
United States David Hilmers — STS-51-J, STS-26, STS-36, STS-42
United States Robert Hines — No flights.
United States Kathryn Hire — STS-90, STS-130
United States Charles Hobaugh — STS-104, STS-118, STS-129
United States Warren Hoburg — No flights.
United States Jeffrey Hoffman — STS-51-D, STS-35, STS-46, STS-61, STS-75
United States Donald Holmquest, M.D. — No flights.
United States Michael S. Hopkins — Soyuz TMA-10M
United States Scott Horowitz — STS-75, STS-82, STS-101, STS-105
Japan Akihiko Hoshide — STS-124, Soyuz TMA-05M
United States Millie Hughes-Fulford — STS-40
United States Douglas G. Hurley — STS-127, STS-135
Rick Husband, United States(1957–2003) — STS-96, STS-107. Died on the Columbia. I
United States James Irwin (1930–1991) — Apollo 15
Soviet Union Aleksandr Ivanchenkov — Soyuz 29/31
Russia Anatoli Ivanishin — Soyuz TMA-22
Bulgaria Georgi Ivanov — Soyuz 33
United States Marsha Ivins — STS-32, STS-46, STS-62, STS-81, STS-98 J
East Germany Sigmund Jähn — Soyuz 31/29
Greg Jarvis, United States, Engineer, Challenger Passenger
United States Mae Jemison, M.D. — STS-47
United States Tamara E. Jernigan — STS-40, STS-52, STS-67, STS-80, STS-96
United States Brent W. Jett, Jr. — STS-72, STS-81, STS-97, STS-115
China Jing Haipeng — Shenzhou 7, Shenzhou 9, Shenzhou 11
United States Gregory C. Johnson — STS-125
United States Gregory H. Johnson — STS-123, STS-134
United States Thomas D. Jones — STS-59, STS-68, STS-80, STS-98
Poland Zenon Jankowski — Soyuz 30 Backup K
Ukraine Leonid Kadeniuk — STS-87
Russia Alexander Kaleri — Soyuz TM-14, Soyuz TM-24, Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-3, Soyuz TMA-01M
United States Janet L. Kavandi — STS-91, STS-99, STS-104
United States James M. Kelly — STS-102, STS-114
Mark Kelly, United States — STS-108, STS-121, STS-124, STS-134
Scott Kelly, United States — STS-103, STS-118, Soyuz TMA-01M, Soyuz TMA-16M/18M
United States Joseph Kerwin, M.D. — Skylab 2
Soviet Union Yevgeny Khrunov (1933–2000) — Soyuz 5/4
United States Jonny Kim — No flights.
United States Robert S. Kimbrough — STS-126.
Soviet Union Leonid Kizim (1941–2010) — Soyuz T-3, Soyuz T-10/11, Soyuz T-15
Soviet Union Petr Klimuk — Soyuz 13, Soyuz 18, Soyuz 30
United States Pete Knight — X-15 flight 190
Soviet Union Pyotr Kolodin — No flights, backup for several missions.
Soviet Union Vladimir Komarov (1927–1967) — Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1. Died during re-entry of first Soyuz spacecraft.
Russia Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova — Soyuz TM-20/STS-84, she became the first woman to make a long-duration spaceflight. Her first trip into space was on Soyuz TM-20 on October 4, 1994. She returned to Earth on March 22, 1995 after a five-month stay at the Mir space station.
Russia Dmitri Kondratyev — Soyuz TMA-20
Russia Oleg Kononenko — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-03M
United States Timothy L. Kopra — STS-127/128
Russia Mikhail Korniyenko — Soyuz TMA-18, Soyuz TMA-16M/18M
Russia Valery Korzun — Soyuz TM-24, STS-111/113
Russia Oleg Kotov — Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-17, Soyuz TMA-10M
Soviet Union Vladimir Kovalyonok — Soyuz 25, Soyuz 29/31, Soyuz T-4
Russia Konstantin Kozeyev — Soyuz TM-33/32
United States Kevin Kregel — STS-70, STS-78, STS-87, STS-99
Soviet Union Russia Sergei Krikalev — Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-12/Soyuz TM-13, STS-60, STS-88, Soyuz TM-31/STS-102, Soyuz TMA-6
Soviet Union Viktor Savinykh — Soyuz T-4, Soyuz T-13/14
Soviet Union Svetlana Jevgenjevna Savitskaya — Soyuz T-7/5, Soyuz T-12. On her 1984 mission she became the first woman to fly to space twice, and the first woman to perform a spacewalk.
Wally Schirra, United States (1923–2007) — Mercury 8, Gemini 6A, Apollo 7
Soviet Union Russia Alexander Volkov — Soyuz T-14, Soyuz TM-7, Soyuz TM-13
Russia Sergey Volkov — Soyuz TMA-12, Soyuz TMA-02M, Soyuz TMA-18M
Soviet Union Vladislav Volkov (1935–1971) — Soyuz 7, Soyuz 11. Died on Soyuz 11.
Soviet Union Boris Volynov — Soyuz 5, Soyuz 21
United States James Voss — STS-44, STS-53, STS-69, STS-101, STS-102/105
United States Janice Voss (1956-2012) — STS-57, STS-63, STS-83, STS-94, STS-99 W
Japan Koichi Wakata — STS-72, STS-92, STS-119/127, Soyuz TMA-11M
United States Rex Walheim — STS-110, STS-122, STS-135
United States Charles D. Walker — STS-41-D, STS-51-D, STS-61-B
United States David M. Walker (1944–2001) — STS-51-A, STS-30, STS-53, STS-69
United States Joseph A. Walker (1921–1966) — X-15 flights 77, 90, and 91.
United States Shannon Walker — Soyuz TMA-19
Germany Ulrich Walter — STS-55
United States Carl Walz — STS-51, STS-65, STS-79, STS-108/111
United States Taylor Wang — STS-51-B
China Wang Yaping — Shenzhou 10
United States Jessica Watkins — No flights.
United States Mary Weber — STS-70, STS-101
United States Paul Weitz — Skylab 2, STS-6
United States James Wetherbee — STS-32, STS-52, STS-63, STS-86, STS-102, STS-113
United States Douglas Wheelock — STS-120, Soyuz TMA-19
Ed White, United States (1930–1967) — Gemini 4. Died in the Apollo 1 fire.
United States Robert Michael White — X-15 flight 62
United States Peggy Whitson — STS-111/113, Soyuz TMA-11
United States Terrence Wilcutt — STS-68, STS-79, STS-89, STS-106
United States Clifton "C.C." Williams (1932–1967) — No flights. Died in a training accident.
Canada Dafydd Williams, M.D. — STS-90, STS-118
United States Donald Williams (1942–2016) — STS-51-D, STS-34
United States Jeffrey Williams — STS-101, Soyuz TMA-8, Soyuz TMA-16
United States Sunita "Suni" Williams — STS-116/117, Soyuz TMA-05M
United States Barry Wilmore – STS-129, Soyuz TMA-14M
United States Stephanie Wilson — STS-121, STS-120, STS-131
United States Gregory R. Wiseman – Soyuz TMA-13M
United States Peter Wisoff — STS-57, STS-68, STS-81, STS-92
United States David Wolf, M.D. — STS-58, STS-86/89, STS-112, STS-127
United States Neil Woodward — No flights.
United States Alfred Worden — Apollo 15 Y
Japan Naoko Yamazaki — STS-131
China Yang Liwei — Shenzhou 5
Soviet Union Boris Yegorov, M.D. (1937–1994) — Voskhod 1
Soviet Union Aleksei Yeliseyev — Soyuz 5/4, Soyuz 8, Soyuz 10
South Korea Yi So-yeon — Soyuz TMA-12/11
John Young, United States (1930—2018) — Gemini 3, Gemini 10, Apollo 10, Apollo 16, STS-1, STS-9
Japan Kimiya Yui — Soyuz TMA-17M
Russia Fyodor Yurchikhin — STS-112, Soyuz TMA-10, Soyuz TMA-19, Soyuz TMA-09M Z
Russia Sergei Zalyotin – Soyuz TM-30, Soyuz TMA-1/TM-34
United States George D. Zamka — STS-120, STS-130
China Zhai Zhigang — Shenzhou 7
China Zhang Xiaoguang — Shenzhou 10
Soviet Union Vitaliy Zholobov — Soyuz 21
Soviet Union Vyacheslav Zudov — Soyuz 23
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