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While the Russians launched on an ambitious
program to send satellites and manned
spacecraft around the Earth and to the Moon,
American space endeavors in the 1950's were
largely preoccupied with the build-up of a
nuclear arsenal of intercontinental ballistic
missiles (ICBM's), as well as the odd satellite.
The launch of Sputnik changed the pace of the
American space program, but still the Russians
were able to send the first man into orbit -- the
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on April, 1961.