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Neil Armstrong
United States astronaut; the first man to set foot on the Moon (July 20, 1969) (1930-)
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968)
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John Herschel Glenn Jr.
made the first orbital rocket-powered flight by a United States astronaut in 1962; later in United States Senate (1921-)
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Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr.
astronaut who made the first United States' suborbital rocket-powered flight in 1961 (1923-1998)
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Valentina Vladmirovna Tereshkova
Soviet cosmonaut who was the first woman in space (born in 1937)
