The National Aeronautics and space Administration, created in 1958, first sent a woman into space in 1983, when Sally Ride rode in the Challenger shuttle.
That is fitting, for it is a copy of a Soviet-era work celebrating the achievements of Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, the Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human being to travel into space.
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但是,按照意大利的Judica - Cordiglia兄弟的说法,加加林并不是进入太空的第一人。
But, according to the Judica-Cordiglia brothers from Italy, Gagarin wasn't the first.