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Old 28-June-2007, 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by crosscountry View Post
3 and a half years by my reckoning.

The Russians sent up sputnik on October 4 1957 and on Feb 12th 1961 they launched a rocket to Venus.

I'm going to go with Sergei Aleksandrovich Afanas'ev because he's the first onthis page
That's certainly a good try, but it is not the correct answer. It was prior to 1961.
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