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Who was the very first person to leave Earth's atmosphere and what were they in?
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Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Soviet pilot, was the first human to leave the Earth's atmosphere. On April 12, 1961 Gagarin flew a Vostok 1 spacecraft. Less than one month later, Alan Shepard, an American astronaut, became the first American in space.
Posted on May 20, 2016 at 12:15 pm
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