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AnswerAlan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. from the USA, on May 5th, 1961.
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Gherman Titov was the second man in space. He traveled on Vostok 2 on Aug 6-7, 1961. He died in September, 2000 as a Colonel-General of the Russian Air Force at age 65.

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Mercury-3 -- Freedom 7 launched on May 5, 1961, carrying Alan Shepard was the second manned space flight -- it was a sub-orbital flight that lasted fifteen minutes.

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Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., Neil Armstrong's partner on Apollo 11, was the second

person on the moon. He stepped onto the surface 21 minutes after Armstrong's

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Alan Shepherd

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Gherman Titov 6 August 1961

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The American astronaut, Alan Shepard.

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