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Alan Shepard - First American in Space
By Jane Runyon |
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1 The Russians were the first country to launch a man into space. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first cosmonaut to ride a rocket into the unknown realm of space. Scientists in the United States were not happy. They had wanted to be first. They had wanted to show the world that the technology in the United States was the best in the world.