SPACE GK
๐SPACE GK๐
* 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.)
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