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Russia calls its astronauts, cosmonauts. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first cosmonaut in space on April 12, 1961. Gagarin was able to do a full Earth orbit.

This was before America's first astronaut in space, Alan Shepard on May 5, 1961 which was only a suborbital flight.

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