Presented below is a list of the first countries to send a human into space. Listed below these are countries able to launch their own manned spacecraft (the other listed astronauts were sent to space onboard a foreign spacecraft).
Countries that sent their citizen into space |
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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 | MirosΕaw Hermaszewski | Soyuz 30 |
East Germany | 1978 | Sigmund Jähn | Soyuz 31 |
Countries capable of sending their own manned spacecraft |
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Country |
Capable since |
First astronaut |
Current spacecraft |
USSR/Russia | 1961 | Yuri Gagarin | Soyuz MS |
USA | 1961 | Alan Shepard | Crew Dragon |
China | 2003 | Yang Liwei | Shenzhou |