When you finish your training (without failing) they pick your name out of a hat. Whoevers name it is that person travels to space.
Yuri Gagarin was the fist person in space
An astronaut goes into space.
sally Kristen ride was the youngest woman to go into space
The first person to fly in space was Yiri Gagarin a Russian.
The first person in Space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut.
An Astronaut......
Me.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to go to space on April 12 1961 and returned safely.
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to ever go into space. He was a Russian cosmonaut.
Yes, if you have a space suit on.
John Glenn