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  2. Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia

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    The commission limited their selection to pilots between 25 and 30 years old. The chief engineer of the programme Sergei Korolev also specified that candidates, to fit in the limited space in the Vostok capsule, should weigh less than 72 kg (159 lb) and be no taller than 1.70 metres (5 ft 7 in); [27] [28] Gagarin was 1.57 metres (5 ft 2 in) tall.

  3. List of Apollo astronauts - Wikipedia

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    Each was 35 years and 65 days old on his launch date and 35 years and 68 days old when he entered lunar orbit. The oldest person to fly to the Moon was Alan Shepard, who walked on its surface during the Apollo 14 mission. Shepard was 47 years and 74 days old on his launch date and 47 years and 78 days old when he entered lunar orbit.

  4. History of spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    The programme carried out six crewed spaceflights between 1961 and 1963. The program was the first program to put humans into space, with Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1. [79] Gherman Titov became the first person to stay in orbit for a full day on August 7, 1961, aboard the Vostok 2. [80]

  5. First Black man who trained as astronaut finally going to ...

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    Ed Dwight, the first Black man to train as an astronaut, in 2023. On Sunday, he will become the oldest person to go to space (Getty Images for National Geogra)

  6. List of spaceflight records - Wikipedia

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    Albert II, a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal in space aboard a U.S. V-2 rocket on June 14, 1949, and died on reentry due to a parachute failure. The first dogs in space were launched 22 July 1951 aboard a Soviet R-1V. "Tsygin" and "Dezik" reached a height of 100 km (62 mi) and safely parachuted back to Earth.

  7. Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman steps out in space for first ...

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    Only the 24 Apollo mission astronauts who flew to the moon have ventured farther into space. While the trip would normally be a once-in-a-lifetime experience, it is just the first of three trips ...

  8. List of space travellers by first flight - Wikipedia

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    He is the first astronaut from Sicily Samantha Cristoforetti, 541st person in space, who has performed the longest single spaceflight by a woman, as of 2015 Andreas Mogensen, joint 544th person and the first Dane in space Aidyn Aimbetov, joint 544th person and the first solely Kazakh cosmonaut Hazza Al Mansouri, joint 564th person and the first ...

  9. Stephen Hawking: 'Human race has no future' without space travel

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    Stephen Hawking is a supporter of space travel, in part, because he thinks the survival of humanity depends on it. Hawking shared these thoughts in an afterword for Julian Guthrie's book "How to ...