Space Researches

Q.  The first cosmonaut to spend about 17½ days in space endurance flight

A.  Adrin Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanosov in soyuz-9 (June 1, 1970)

Q.  The first person in the world to land on the moon

A.  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.

Q.  The first man to enter space

A.  Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)

Q.  The first woman cosmonaut of the world

A.  Velentina Tereshkova

Q.  The first American astronaut to float in space

A.  Edward White

Q.  The first unmanned spaceship to have soft landed and lifted off from the moon to returnto the earth

A.  Luna-16 (U.S.S.R.) September 21, 1970

Q.  The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon

A.  Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick-named ‘Eagle’

Q.  The first spaceship which carried three American astronauts to land two of them on the moon

A.  Apollo-11

Q.  The first country to send man to the moon

A.  U.S.A.

Q.  The first space-vehicle to orbit the moon

A.  Luna-10 (U.S.S.R.)

Q.  The first unmanned moon buggy to explore surface of the moon

A.  Lunakhod-1 (U.S.S.R.)

Q.  The first space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon

A.  Zond-5

Q.  First crew transfer between the orbiting spaceships

A.  Soyuz T-15 with Mir Space Station

Q.  The first mission of a linking-up in space by manned spaceships of U.S.A. and Soviet Union

A.  Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Mission (ASTP) (launched on July 15 and linked up in space on July 17, 1975)

Q.  India’s first scientific satellite

A.  Aryabhatta

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

A.  Vladimir

Q.  Russia’s first spaceship with international crew on board.

A.  Remek (Czechoslovakia)

Q.  The first country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter

A.  U.S.A.

Q.  The first Indian to go into space

A.  Rakesh Sharma

Q.  The first American astronaut to make two space flights

A.  Gordon Cooper (U.S.A.)

Q.  The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon A.  U.S.S.R. Q.  The first space rocket to hit the moon A.  Lunik II Q.  The first spaceship in the world to sample moon’s crust A.  Surveyor-3 (U.S.A.) Q.  The first space vehicle to soft land on moon A.  Luna-9 (U.S.S.R.) Q.  The first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11 days) A.  Apollo-7 (U.S.A.) Q.  The first manned spaceship to perform space flight round the moon A.  Apollo-8 (U.S.A.) Q.  The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space A.  Apollo-9 (U.S.A.) Q.  The first woman of Indian origin in space A.  Kalpana Chawla Q.  The first residents on the International Space Station A.  Bill shepherd (U.S.A.), Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia) Q.  The first space tourist in the world A.  Dennis Tito (U.S.A.) Q.  The first European woman to international Space Station A.  Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut) Q.  The first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world A.  Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002) Q.  The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronauts A.  Columbia (February 1, 2003) Q.  China’s first man in space A.  Yang Liwei Q.  European Space Agency’s first moon probe craft A.  SMART-I Q.  America’s first Mission to Saturn A.  Cassini Spacecraft (Reached Saturn’s orbit in July 2004) Q.  First private, manned spacecraft A.  Spaceship One (Launched on June 21, 2004) Q.  First European space probe landing on the surface of the Saturnian Moon Titan A.  Huygens (January 15, 2005) Q.  India’s first Mapping Satellite A.  CARTOSAT-I (Launched on May 5, 2005) Q.  The first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet A.  NASA’s Deep Impact hit its comet target temple-I (July 4, 2005) Q.  The first Japanese spacecraft to get down to an asteroid and collect samples from there A.  Hayabusa (November 2005, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Q.  The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto A.  New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19, 2006) Q.  The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space A.  Sunita Williams Q.  The first lunar orbiter of China A.  Chang’e-I (Lauched on October 24, 2007 from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre of South-Western Sichuan Province) Q.  The first successful moon mission of India A.  Chandrayan-I (October 22, 2008) Q.  The US software pioneer who became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist A.  Charles Simonyi (March 26, 2009)

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