### The timeline of human spaceflight

The table below lists the first countries to send a human 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 | Mirosław Hermaszewski | Soyuz 30
East Germany | 1978 | Sigmund Jähn | Soyuz 31

Countries that sent their citizen into space