The first country to launch a successful spacecraft and to put a man in space was

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The Soviet Union launched the first successful spacecraft, Sputnik, in 1957 and put the first man, Yuri Gagarin, in space in 1961. Great Britain has never launched a successful spacecraft capable of putting a man in space, and China did not achieve this feat until 2003. The United States was the second country to put a man in space in 1961, following the Soviet Union.

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