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Yuri Gagarin didn't fly in a space shuttle- they weren't invented till the late 1970s and in the U.S. He launched up in VOSTOK 1, the rocket itself called VOSTOK 3KA, in a small capsule that would plummet back to earth (not glide back to a runway like the space shuttle)

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