Topic |
Answer |
The
first cosmonaut to spend about 17 days in space endurance flight |
Adrin Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanosov in
soyuz-9 (June 1, 1970) |
The
first person in the world to land on the moon |
Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Adrin Jr. of
U.S.A. Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin.
July 21, 1969. |
The
first man to enter space |
Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian) |
The
first woman cosmonaut of the world |
Velentina Tereshkova |
The
first American astronaut to float in space |
Edward White |
The
first unmanned spaceship to have soft landed and lifted off from the moon to
return to the earth |
Luna-16 (U.S.S.R.) September 21, 1970 |
The
first manned space vehicle to land on the moon |
Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick-named
Eagle |
The
first spaceship which carried three American astronauts to land two of them
on the moon |
Apollo-11 |
The
first country to send man to the moon |
U.S.A. |
The
first space-vehicle to orbit the moon |
Luna-10 (U.S.S.R.) |
The
first unmanned moon buggy to explore surface of the moon |
Lunakhod-1 (U.S.S.R.) |
The
first space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon |
Zond-5 |
First
crew transfer between the orbiting spaceships |
Soyuz T-15 with Mir Space Station |
The
first mission of a linking-up in space by manned spaceships of U.S.A. and
Soviet Union |
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission (ASTP)
(launched on July 15 and linked up in space on July 17, 1975) |
India's
first scientific satellite |
Aryabhatta |
The
first man to fly into space belonging to a country other than Russia or the
U.S.A. |
Vladimir |
Russia's
first spaceship with international crew on board. |
Remek (Czechoslovakia) |
The
first country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter |
U.S.A. |
The
first Indian to go into space |
Rakesh Sharma |
The
first American astronaut to make two space flights |
Gordon Cooper (U.S.A.) |
The
first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon |
U.S.S.R. |
The
first space rocket to hit the moon |
Lunik II |
The
first spaceship in the world to sample moon's crust |
Surveyor-3 (U.S.A.) |
The
first space vehicle to soft land on moon |
Luna-9 (U.S.S.R.) |
The
first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11 days) |
Apollo-7 (U.S.A.) |
The
first manned spaceship to perform space flight round the moon |
Apollo-8 (U.S.A.) |
The
first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space |
Apollo-9 (U.S.A.) |
The
first woman of Indian origin in space |
Kalpana Chawla |
The
first residents on the International Space Station |
Bill shepherd (U.S.A.),Yuri Gidzenko and
Sergei Krikalev (Russia) |
The
first space tourist in the world |
Dennis Tito (U.S.A.) |
The
first European woman to international Space Station |
Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut) |
The
first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world |
Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002) |
The
first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the
astronauts |
Columbia (February 1, 2003) |
China's
first man in space |
Yang Liwei |
European
Space Agency's first moon probe craft |
SMART-I |
America's
first Mission to Saturn |
Cassini Spacecraft (Reached Saturn's orbit
in July 2004) |
First
private, manned spacecraft |
Spaceship One (Launched on June 21, 2004) |
First
European space probe landing on the surface of the Saturnian Moon Titan |
Huygens (January 15, 2005) |
India's
first Mapping Satellite |
CARTOSAT-I (Launched on May 5, 2005) |
The
first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet |
NASA's Deep Impact hit its comet target
temple-I (July 4, 2005) |
The
first Japanese spacecraft to get down to an asteroid and collect samples from
there |
Hayabusa (November 2005, Japan's Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA) |
The
first Probe Mission to planet Pluto |
New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19,
2006) |
The
first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space |
Sunita Williams |
The
first lunar orbiter of China |
Chang'e-I (Lauched on October 24, 2007 from Xichang
Satellite Launch Centre of South-Western Sichuan Province) |
The
first successful moon mission of India |
Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008) |
The
US software pioneer who became the first person to travel twice to space as a
tourist |
Charles Simonyi (March 26, 2009) |
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