First in Space

 

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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)