Article Detail Name of the first man to go into the space ? Answer: Major Yuri Gagarin (USSR) Similar Questions : 1. Name of the first Country to print books ? Answer: China 2. Who was first woman to climb Mount Everest ? Answer: Junko Tabei (Japan) 3. Who was the first person to win the Nobel prize for Peace ? Answer: Jin F. Dunant (Switzerland)and Frederic Peiry (France) 4. Who was First man to reach South Pole ? Answer: Ronald Amundsen 5. Name of the first country to issue paper currency ? Answer: China 6. Who was first European Invader of Indian Soil ? Answer: Alexander 7. Who was first to won Nobel prize of Economics ? Answer: Ragnar Frisch (Norway) and Jan Timbergen (Howlland) Read more from - First in World