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âItâs not like astronauts are braver than other people; weâre just meticulously prepared.â. - Astronaut Chris Hadfield, Canadian astronaut and commander of the International space station. Surprisingly, entrepreneurs may learn profound lessons from astronauts.
The Mercury Project suffered some early setbacks, however, and on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited Earth in the worldâs first manned space flight. Less than one month later, on May 5, astronaut Alan Shepard was successfully launched into space on a suborbital flight. On February 20, 1962, in a major step for the U.S. space program, John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.