### The ultimate table of spaceflight:

Presented below is a list of the first countries to send a human into space. Listed below these are countries able to launch their own manned spacecraft (the other listed astronauts were sent to space onboard a foreign spacecraft).

Countries that sent their citizen into space
Country | Date of launch | Name | Spacecraft
USSR | 1961 | Yuri Gagarin | Vostok-1
USA | 1961 | Alan Shepard | Mercury 3
Czechoslovakia | 1978 | Vladimír Remek | Soyuz 28
Poland | 1978 | Mirosław Hermaszewski | Soyuz 30
East Germany | 1978 | Sigmund Jähn | Soyuz 31
Countries capable of sending their own manned spacecraft
Country | Capable since | First astronaut | Current spacecraft
USSR/Russia | 1961 | Yuri Gagarin | Soyuz MS
USA | 1961 | Alan Shepard | Crew Dragon
China | 2003 | Yang Liwei | Shenzhou