Space 'firsts'

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First Satellite in space

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Sputnik I

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When was the First Satellite put into space

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10/4/57

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What was the first live animal put into space?

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Laika the dog.

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What was the first object to orbit the sun?

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Soviet Lunik I (Later called Mechta)

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When was the first photo from space taken?

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April 1, 1960

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What was the first U.S. spy satellite?

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Discoverer XIV

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Who were the first live animals to return from space?

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The dogs Strelka and Belka.

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Who was the first human in space and in what craft?

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Yuri Gagarin orbited earth once in Voskhod I.

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Who was the first American in space and in what craft?

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Alan Shepard in Freedom 7.

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Which American orbited the earth first?

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John Glenn in Friendship 7.

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Which space probe was the first to encounter another planet?

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U.S. Mariner 2 encountered Venus.

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Who was the first woman in space?

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Valentia Tereshkova in Vostok 6

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Which object captured the first close-up images of the moon?

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U.S. Ranger 7.

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Who made the first Space walk?

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Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

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Who made the first U.S. space walk?

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Edward White II on Gemini 4

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Which probe took the first close-up images of Mars?

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U.S. Mariner 4

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Which spacecraft was the first to soft-land on the moon?

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Soviet Luna 9

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Which object was the first to impact Venus?

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Soviet Venus 3.

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Which spacecraft was the first to orbit the moon?

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Soviet Luna 10

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What was the first American spacecraft to soft-land on the moon?

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U.S. Surveyor 1

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What object captured the first picture of the earth from the moon?

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Lunar Orbiter 1

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When was the first U.S. sapce tragedy?

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1/27/1967. Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee all died due to a flash fire on the launchpad.

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Who was the first Hispanic in Space?

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Ellen Ochoa

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Who was the First Female Shuttle Commander?

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Eileen Collins

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First American woman in space

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Sally Ride

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Youngest American in space

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Sally Ride

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First African American in space

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Guion "Guy" Bluford, Jr

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First American to walk in space

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Ed White

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First African American woman in space

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Mae Jemison

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First Female Space Walker

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Svetlana Savitskaya

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first Space Tourist

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Dennis Tito

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first manned private spaceflight

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Mike Melvill on SpaceShipOne

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First Latin American in space

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Cuban Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez

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First Asian in space

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Pham Tuan of Vietnam

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First space station in space

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Salyut 1

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First International Docking in Space

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Apollo-Soyuz mission on July 17, 1975

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First Civilian Death during spaceflight

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January 28, 1986 Christa McAuliffe aboard Challenger STS 51L

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Longest single flight by woman

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Sunita Williams