[deanCommie]

Americans always like to overinflate their early spaceflight accomplishments.

There is a whole fight on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_spaceflight_recor... about it

tl;dr: Yuri Gagarin is listed first on the page with 2 "Firsts", but Alan Shepard is listed second with four.

Even though, two of his "firsts" are already superceded by what Gagarin did.

"First Person to make suborbital flight"? So? Gagarin already made a suborbital flight before he made his orbital flight.

"First Person to land in water"? So? Shouldn't that mean that Gagarin should have an entry that says "First person to land on land?"