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SPACE RACE media type="youtube" key="RMINSD7MmT4" height="307" width="384" align="right" In 1961 the first person orbited Earth, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet astronaut. Less than six weeks after the Soviet flight the president gave a speech, which soon motivated the nation. In 1962, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth. Three years later, the United States sent three men into space hoping to land on the moon. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin landed on the moon. Once he set foot on the moon, he announced, "That's one smal step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."  Kennedy Dies