Yuri Gagarin<\/a> launched in Vostok 1 at 06:07 UTC and reached his highest altitude of 327 km (203 miles) 10 minutes later, becoming the first human in space.<\/p>\nOn 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard, in Freedom 7, became the first American in space, when he reached a maximum altitude of 187.4 km (116.5 miles) 5:14 minutes after launch in a suborbital flight that lasted just 15 minutes.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n
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