9+ First American To Travel Into Space Pictures. Mendez became the first latin american, the first person of african descent and the first cuban to fly in space when he flew aboard the soviet jan davis and mark lee were the first couple to go into space together when the husband and wife were astronauts on the space shuttle endeavour in 1992. He would turn 60 later that year, and he felt like his chances of getting into space were rapidly running out.
The first american to orbit the earth was john glenn on 20 february 1962 in mercury 6.
A russian named yuri gagarin became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth. What if other cosmonauts were sent into space before gagarin, but the soviet political leadership hushed up their deaths? On 14 december 1959, the american newspaper 'the gadsden times' in alabama published an associated press report headlined: Since 2001, only seven people have travelled into space as tourists with american company space adventure.
