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Of that total, 102 are women. The first person in space was the Soviet Union’s Yuri Gagarin on April 12, 1961. The first American, Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard, followed on May 5, 1961.

The four astronauts were trained at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia, where Rakesh Sharma underwent training. Sharma is the first Indian to travel to space in 1984. Union ...