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First person in space (USSR)
Ю́рий Гага́рин
(Yuri Gagarin)
First African American woman in space (USA)
Mae Jemison
Commander of Apollo 12 (USA)
Pete Conrad
First person to walk on the moon (USA)
Neil Armstrong
First American in orbit; oldest person in space (USA)
John Glenn
Commander of Apollo 13 (USA)
Jim Lovell
Second American woman in space, died in the Challenger disaster (USA)
Judy Resnik
First American to walk in space; died in Apollo 1 (USA)
Ed White
First woman in space (USSR)
Валенти́на Терешко́ва
(Valentina Tereshkova)
First British ESA astronaut (UK)
Tim Peake
Second American in space; died in Apollo 1 (USA)
Gus Grissom
First African American in space (USA)
Guy Bluford
First American in space (USA)
Alan Shepard
First person to walk in space (USSR)
Алексе́й Лео́нов
(Alexey Leonov)
First Canadian to walk in space (CAN)
Chris Hadfield
First American woman in space (USA)
Sally Ride
First female Space Shuttle commander (USA)
Eileen Collins
Second person to walk on the moon (USA)
Buzz Aldrin
Retired in 1997, after having served on six Space Shuttle missions (USA)
Story Musgrave
Last American to travel into space alone (USA)
Gordon Cooper