Astronauts

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[b][color=#FFC000][font=&quot]Yury Gagarin[/font][/color][/b]


[color=black][font=&quot]On April 12, 1961, the Russian cosmonaut Yury Gagarin blasted into
orbit aboard Vostok 1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. He was the
first person in space, and completed an orbit of the Earth before landing. This
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[b][color=#FFC000][font=&quot]Helen Sharman[/font][/color][/b]


[color=black][font=&quot]Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, is shown here on her
return from an eight-day flight to the Russian space station Mir in 1991.[/font][/color]












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[b][color=#FFC000][font=&quot]Neil Armstrong[/font][/color][/b]


[color=black][font=&quot]On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong, commander of the Apollo 11 lunar
mission, became the first person to walk on the Moon.[/font][/color]


















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[b][color=#FFC000][font=&quot]Valentina Tereshkova[/font][/color][/b]


[color=black][font=&quot]Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to enter space.
She piloted the Vostok 6 in orbit around the Earth for four days in 1963.[/font][/color]


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