The ultimate table of spaceflight:

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

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 capable of sending their own manned spacecraft

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