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The first ten astronauts in space were Yuri Gagarin (USSR), Alan Shepard (USA), Virgil "Gus" Grissom (USA), John Glenn (USA), Mikhail Lomonosov (USSR), Leonid Kizim (USSR), Aleksei Arkhipovich (USSR), Pavel Popovich (USSR), Andriyan Nikolayev (USSR), and Valentina Tereshkova (USSR). Gagarin was the first human to orbit Earth in 1961, followed by Shepard, who was the first American in space. The early missions primarily involved the Soviet Vostok program and the American Mercury program. These astronauts helped pave the way for future space exploration.
Including USSR -Cosmonauts - Astronauts have been around since the 1960's.
No astronauts littered the moon.
Well, some astronauts do. Not all astronauts will die in space, but some will if the mission went wrong or if it is just being there when you die of natural causes.
Almost all of the early astronauts were military (and some civilian) test pilots.
Russian astronauts, be they from the old USSR or modern-day Russia, have always been known as 'cosmonauts'.
Astronauts and cosmonauts
APOLLO
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The United States caught up to the USSR in their space efforts on July 20, 1969, when Apollo 11 successfully landed astronauts on the moon. This accomplishment was a significant milestone in the space race between the two countries.
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