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Importent General Knowledge Questions Answers Related to Space


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


* The first cosmonaut to spend about 17½ days in space endurance flight
- Adrin Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanosov in soyuz-9 (1 June 1970)


* The first woman cosmonaut of the world
- Velentina Tereshkova


* 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 space tourist in the world who spent 8 days in space
- Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)


* The first European woman to international Space Station
- Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut)


* 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.) 21 September , 1970


* First liquid fueled rocket launched
  • 16 march 1926


* The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon
- U.S.S.R.


* 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 Indian to go into space

- Rakesh Sharma


* The first woman of Indian origin in space

- Kalpana Chawla


* Indias first scientific satellite
- Aryabhatta

* Indias first Mapping Satellite
- CARTOSAT-I (Launched on 5 May, 2005)

* Indias first geostationary satellite
-Apple(1981)

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

*Indias first succossful mars orbiter mission
-Mangalyaan(5th November 2013)

* The first country to send man to the moon
- U.S.A.

* The first country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter
- U.S.A.

* The first American astronaut to make two space flights
- Gordon Cooper (U.S.A.)

* The first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11days)
- 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 spaceship in the world to sample moons crust
- Surveyor-3 (U.S.A.)

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

* The first man to fly into space belonging to a country other than Russia or the U.S.A.
- Vladimir

* 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 vehicle to soft land on moon
- Luna-9 (U.S.S.R.)

* The first man to fly into space belonging to a country other than Russia or the U.S.A.
- Vladimir

* 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)


* Russias first spaceship with international crew on board.
- Remek (Czechoslovakia)


* The first space rocket to hit the moon
- Lunik II


* The first residents on the International Space Station
- Bill shepherd (U.S.A.), Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)


* 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 ( 1 February, 2003)


* Chinas first man in space
- Yang Liwei


* European Space Agencys first moon probe craft
- SMART-I


* Americas first Mission to Saturn
- Cassini Spacecraft (Reached Saturns orbit in July 2004)


* First private, manned spacecraft
- Spaceship One (Launched on 21 June, 2004)


* First European space probe landing on the surface of the Saturnian Moon Titan
- Huygens ( 15 January, 2005)

* The first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet
- NASAs Deep Impact hit its comet target temple-I ( 4 July, 2005)


* The first Japanese spacecraft to get down to an asteroid and collect samples from there
- Hayabusa (November 2005, Japans Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)


* The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space
- Sunita Williams


* The first lunar orbiter of China
- Change-I (Lauched on 24 October, 2007 from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre of South-Western Sichuan Province)


* The US software pioneer who became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist
- Charles Simonyi ( 26 March, 2009)
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