First in space
Human beings have been desirous of knowledge from the very beginning. He wants to get knowledge about everything, understand the laws of nature and establish harmony with nature, that is why he is not limited only to the earth, but now human has started reaching space and universe. Today, various countries have exposed the realities of the earth and the universe by sending their satellites and spacecraft into space.
What is called space?
Space is a reality of the universe that can never be denied. It is an endless three-dimensional expansive field, consisting of various types of planets, stars, and celestial phenomena such as meteors, their relative positions and a definite direction.
List Of First In Space:
| First in space | Man, satellite and spacecraft | Achievement year |
| First person to enter space | Major Yuri Gagarin (Russia) | April 12, 1961 |
| First female astronaut | Valentina Tereshkova | June 6, 1963 |
| First person to walk on the moon | Neil Armstrong | July 21, 1969 |
| First man to land on the moon | Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin | July 1969 |
| The first person to exit the spacecraft | Alexey leonov | March 18, 1965 |
| First Soviet astronaut to go to space twice | Colonel Vladimir Komarov | 1964 and 1967 |
| First person to walk in space | Alexey leonov | March 18, 1965 |
| First American passenger to walk in space | Edward Wright | 3 June 1965 |
| longest space traveler | Valery Polyakov | 678 days (1988-89 and 1994-95) |
| First Indian woman astronaut | Kalpana Chawla | November 19, 1997 |
| First woman to walk in space | Svetlana Sovitsky | July 25, 1984 |
| First american woman to go into space | Sally ride | June 18, 1983 |
| First teacher in space | Christa McAuliffe | January 28, 1986 |
| Youngest astronaut | Gereman Titob | 6 August 1961 |
| Oldest astronaut | Carl Gordon Heinige | 1967 |
| The first space shuttle to be sent into space | Colombia | April 12, 1981 |
| The first crewless spacecraft to land on the moon | Luna-9 | January 31, 1961 |
| The first crewless spacecraft to land on the moon | Apollo-11 | July 21, 1969 |
| First crewed spacecraft to land on the moon | Eagle | April 14, 2018 |
| First spacecraft to land on Mars | Viking-1 | 21 August 1975 |
| First spacecraft to orbit the moon | Luna-10 | April 3, 1966 |
| First meeting of two countries' vehicles in space | Apollo Soyuz | July 15, 1975 |
| India's first driverless aircraft | Target | 1992 |
| The first country to send a crewless spacecraft to Mars | America | 1975 |
| First animal in space | Dog named laika | 3 November 1957 |
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The first cosmonaut was Yuri Gagarin. He made humans travel in space for the first time in global history by successfully launching from the Soviet Union's Vostok-1 spacecraft on 12 April 1961.