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The first human spaceflight was Vostok 1 April 12, 1961, a cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin of the Soviet Union into an orbit around the Earth. The official Soviet documents do not mention the fact that Gagarin parachuted into the final seven miles. International standards for aviation records found that "the pilot is on board to launch its fall." This rule, if applied, would have been "disqualified" Gagarin's space flight. Currently, the only spacecraft to use a normal human spaceflight are Russian Soyuz and U.S. space shuttle fleet. Each of them have used the space programs of other ships in the past. Recently, China's Shenzhou spacecraft have been used three times in human spaceflight, and SpaceShipOne twice.
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