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On 12 April 1961 Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin , a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth.


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The Russian put the first man in earth orbit, he was Yuri Gagarin in the year 1961.


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The first time a u.S spacecraft orbitted the earth was in 1962 , the astronaut was John Glenn.


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