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Detailed explanation-1: -Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27, 400 kilometers per hour with the flight lasting 108 minutes. Vostok’s reentry was controlled by a computer. Unlike the early U.S. human spaceflight programs, Gagarin did not land inside of capsule.

Detailed explanation-2: -Before Gagarin’s mission, the Soviet Union had already blasted the first satellite in into space, Sputnik 1. Only three weeks after Gagarin’s earth orbit, American astronaut Alan Shepard–part of the so-called Mercury-7–was launched into space aboard a rocket called Freedom 7.