Hezârfen Ahmed Çelebi was a legendary Ottoman of 17th-century Istanbul, purported to have achieved sustained unpowered flight. See attached link.
The first man to go into space was a man called Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin. (USSR). He didn't land anywhere but was the first man in space. Quite an achievement don't you think
The Soviet Union (USSR) launched the first space station "Salyut 1" on April 19, 1971.
The Wright brothers (Orville and and Wilbur) were the first team to make a successful air flight.
America
The Wright Brothers were the inventors of the first successful airplane. They took off on a short flight in Kitty Hawk, Indiana in 1914.
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first manned helicopter flight
The name of America's first manned space flight was Freedom 7, flown by astronaut Alan Shepard on May 5, 1961.
On 5 May, 1961 Alan Shepherd was launched on a sub-orbital flight into space aboard Freedom 7, the first manned mission of Project Mercury.
The first manned flight was in 1903 and the first man landed on the moon in 1969. So there were 66 years between the two events.
The first manned space flight took place in 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
The first manned balloon flight took place in France. It occurred on June 4, 1783, when the Montgolfier brothers successfully flew a hot air balloon with passengers for the first time in Annonay, France.
The first manned flight to the moon was on an Apollo spacecraft launched by America.
The Soviet Union achieved the first manned space flight on April 12, 1961, with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbiting the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
The first man to attempt manned rocket flight was Yuri Gagarin. He became the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.
Vladimir Suvorov has written: 'The first manned spaceflight' -- subject(s): Manned space flight, History
Yuri Gagarin