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Space Related General Knowledge

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

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


2. The first person in the world to land on the moon
 Ans.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.


3. The first man to enter space
 Ans.Major Yuri Gagarin (Russian)



4. The first woman cosmonaut of the world
Ans. Velentina Tereshkova


5. The first American astronaut to float in space
Ans. Edward White


6. The first unmanned spaceship to have soft landed and lifted off from the moon to return to the earth
Ans. Luna-16 (U.S.S.R.) September 21, 1970


7. The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon
Ans. Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick-named ‘Eagle

8. The first country to send man to the moon
Ans. U.S.A.’


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

Ans. Apollo-11


10. The first space-vehicle to orbit the moon

Ans. Luna-10 (U.S.S.R.)


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

Ans. Lunakhod-1 (U.S.S.R.)

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

Ans. Zond-5


13. First crew transfer between the orbiting spaceships

Ans. Soyuz T-15 with Mir Space Station


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

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


15. India’s first scientific satellite

Ans. Aryabhatta


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

Ans. Vladimir


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

Ans. Remek (Czechoslovakia)


18 The first country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter

Ans.U.S.A.


19 The first Indian to go into space

Ans.Rakesh Sharma


20 The first American astronaut to make two space flights

Ans. Gordon Cooper (U.S.A.)


21 The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon

Ans. U.S.S.R.


22 The first space rocket to hit the moon

Ans. Lunik II


23 The first spaceship in the world to sample moon’s crust

Ans. Surveyor-3 (U.S.A.)


24 The first space vehicle to soft land on moon

Ans. Luna-9 (U.S.S.R.)


25 The first manned spaceship to perform the longest stay in space (11 days)

Ans. Apollo-7 (U.S.A.)


26 The first manned spaceship to perform space flight round the moon

Ans. Apollo-8 (U.S.A.)


27 The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space

Ans. Apollo-9 (U.S.A.)


28 The first woman of Indian origin in space

Ans. Kalpana Chawla

29 The first residents on the International Space Station

 Ans.Bill shepherd (U.S.A.), Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev (Russia)


30 The first space tourist in the world

Ans. Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)


31 The first European woman to international Space Station

Ans. Claudie Haignere (French cosmonaut)


32 The first space tourist of S. Africa and second of the world

Ans. Mark Shuttleworth (April 2002)


33 The first US space shuttle to explode while returning home killing all the astronauts

Ans. Columbia (February 1, 2003)


34 China’s first man in space

Ans. Yang Liwei


35 European Space Agency’s first moon probe craft

Ans. SMART-I


36 America’s first Mission to Saturn

Ans. Cassini Spacecraft (Reached Saturn’s orbit in July 2004)


37 First private, manned spacecraft

Ans. Spaceship One (Launched on June 21, 2004)


38 First European space probe landing on the surface of the Saturnian Moon Titan

Ans Huygens (January 15, 2005)


39 India’s first Mapping Satellite

 Ans.CARTOSAT-I (Launched on May 5, 2005)


40 The first spacecraft to touch the surface of a comet

Ans. NASA’s Deep Impact hit its comet target temple-I (July 4, 2005)


41 The first Probe Mission to planet Pluto

Ans. New Horizons (U.S. launched on January 19, 2006)


42 The first Japanese spacecraft to get down to an asteroid and collect samples from there

Ans. Hayabusa (November 2005, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)


43 The first space woman to stay for the longest ever Perivale of time in space

Ans. Sunita Williams


44 The first lunar orbiter of China

Ans. Chang’e-I (Lauched on October 24, 2007 from Xichang Satellite Launch Centre of South-Western Sichuan Province)



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