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Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), the First Secretary of the Communist party, and de facto leader of the Soviet Union, was one of the driving forces of the "space race" between Russia and the United States. Gagarin's orbital flight of April 12, 1961 edged out the US, which launched Alan Shepard into space a month later.

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