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No. "Sputnik" was the first UNMANNED satellite to orbit the Earth, and was launched on October 4, 1957. Yuri Gagarin was a cosmonaut for the Soviet Union. On April 12, 1961, he became the first human being to travel into space. His spacecraft was called "Vostok I" and it completed a single orbit of the earth in 1 hour and 48 minutes.

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