ONAM celebration

First in Space

Space Related General Knowledge	Answers
The first cosmonaut to spend about 17½ 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)