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Space Related Questions
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The fist cosmonaut to spend about 17 ½ days in space endurance flight
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Adrin Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanosov in soyuz-9 (June1, 1970)
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The first person in the world to land on the moon
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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.
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The first man to enter space
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Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
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The first woman cosmonaut of the world
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Velentina Tereshkova
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The first American astronaut to float in space
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Edward White
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The first unmanned spaceship to have soft landed and lifted off from the moon to return to the earth
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Luna-16 (U.S.S.R.) Spetember 21, 1970
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The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon
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Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick-named “Eagle”
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The first spaceship which carried three American astronauts to land two of them on the moon
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Apollo-11
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The first country to send man to the moon
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U.S.A
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The first space-vehicle to orbit the moon
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Luna-10 (U.S.S.R)
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The first unnamed moon buddy to explore surface of the moon
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Lunakhod-1 (U.S.S.R)
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First crew transfer between the orbiting spaceships
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Soyusz T-15 with Mir Space Station
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The first space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon
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Zond-5
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The first successful moon mission of India
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Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008)
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The first lunar orbiter of China
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Change e-I(Launched on October 24, 2007 from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre of South-Western Sichuan Province)
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The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space
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Sunita Williams
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The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto
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New Horizons (U.S. Laumched on January-19, 2006)
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The first Japanese spacecraft to get down to an asteroid and collect samples from there
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Hayabusa (November 2005, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
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The first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet
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NASA’s Deep Impact hit its comet target temple-I (July -4, 2005)
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India’s first Mapping Satellite
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CARTOSAT-I (Launched on May-5, 2005)
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First European space probe landing on the surface of the Saturnian Moon Titan
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Huyens (January-15, 2005)
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First private, manned spacecraft
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Spaceship One (Launched on June-21, 2004)
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America’s first Mission to Saturn
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Cassini Spacecraft (Reached Saturn’s orbit in July 2004)
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European Space Agency’s first moon probe craft
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SMART-I
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China’s first man in space
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Yang Liwei
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The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronauts
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Columbia (February -1, 2003)
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The first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world
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Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002)
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The first European woman to international Space Station
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Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut)
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The first space tourist in the world
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Dennis Tito (U.S.A)
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The fist residents on the International Space Station
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Bill shepherd (U.S.A), Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)
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The first Woman of Indian origin in space
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Kalpana Chawla
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The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space
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Apollo-9(U.S.A)
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The first manned spaceship to perform space flight round the moon
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Apollo-8(U.S.A)
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The first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11 days)
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Apollo-7(U.S.A)
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The first space vehicle to soft land on moon
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Luna-9 (U.S.S.R)
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The first spaceship in the world to sample moon’s crust
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Survey-3 (U.S.A)
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The first space rocket to hit the moon
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Lunik-II
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The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon
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U.S.S.R
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The first American astronaut to make two space flights
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Gordon Cooper (U.S.A)
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The first Indian to go into space
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Rakesh Sharma
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The first country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter
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U.S.A
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Russia’s first spaceship with international crew on board
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Remerk(Czechoslovakia)
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The first man to fly into space belonging to a country other than Russia or the U.S.A
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Vladimir
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Indian’s first scientific satellite
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Aryabhatta
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First crew transfer between the orbiting spaceships
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Soyuz T-15 with Mir Space Station
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The first mission of a linking up in space by manned spaceships of U.S.A and Soviet Union
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission (ASTP) launche on July-15 and linked up in space on july-17, 1975
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