SPACE GK

🚀SPACE GK🚀

* Artificial satellite launched into orbit: Sputnik 1, 1957

* The first man to enter space: Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)

* The first American astronaut to float in space: Edward White

* Mammal in space : Laika, a dog, 1957

* Person in space :Yuri Gagarin, 1961

* Woman in space : Valentina Tereshkova, 1963

* Space walk : Aleksei Leonov, 1965

* Human to.set foot on the moon : Neil Armstrong. 1969 

* Woman to space -walk: savetlana savitskaya, 1984

* Tourist in space : Dennis Tito, 2001

* Manned private space flight:space ship one piloted by mike melvik, 2004

* Space craft to orbit saturn : cassini — Huygens, 2004

* Woman Tourist in space : Anouseh Ansari, 2006

* 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

* The first successful moon mission of India: Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008)

* The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto: New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19, 2006)

* China’s first man in space: Yang Liwei

* The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronautsColumbia 

    (February 1, 2003)

* The first space tourist in the world: Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)

* The first woman of Indian origin in space: Kalpana Chawla

* 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.)