Astronauts, Satellites and Space Missions

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  1. The first Chinese national in space was Yang Liwei.
  2. The first Chinese national to walk in space was Zhai Zhigang.
  3. The first Polish in space was Miroslaw Hermaszewski.
  4. The first Indian in space was Rakesh Sharma.
  5. The first Canadian to walk in space was Chris Hadfield.
  6. The first Cuban in space was Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.
  7. The European Space Agency has recently sent smart satellites into space.
  8. In 1969, man first stepped on the Moon.
  9. On October 4, 1957, Sputnik-I was launched by Russia.
  10. The Moon spacecraft enabled man to step on the Moon in 1969.
  11. The first Muslim astronaut in space was Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor.
  12. The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin.
  13. The first Saudi in space was Sultan Salman Al Saud.
  14. The first Syrian in space was Muhammad Faris.
  15. The first Pakistani in space was Sultan Salman Al Saud.
  16. Afghan who walked in space: Abdul Ahad Mohmand.
  17. The first African-American in space was Guion Bluford, USA, 1983.
  18. Russia launched the first dog into space in 1957, which was Laika.
  19. Hubble is a space telescope.
  20. The Youngest two American scientists to walk on the Moon were both 29 years old.
  21. The first ever artificial satellite was launched by Russia.
  22. Marc Garneau was the first Canadian in space.
  23. Vladimir Dzhanibekov was the first man to visit Soviet and the 1st European in space.
  24. Helen Sharman was the first woman astronaut in space, and the first non-Soviet European.
  25. Sigmund Jähn was the first German in space.
  26. The Hubble space telescope was launched into space on 24th April, 1990.
  27. The Hubble space telescope was launched into space with the help of space shuttle discovery.
  28. The first artificial satellite was launched in October 1957.
  29. America launched its first space station in 1973.
  30. Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, was launched 3 months earlier than Explorer 1.
  31. In 1979, the SkyLab began to break up in the atmosphere and fell to Earth in 1983.
  32. The job of the sophisticated unmanned US spacecraft, Voyager was to examine the interstellar regions.
  33. In 1977, USA launched Voyager and in 1989 pictures and other information about the planet and its moons were obtained.
  34. The Russian space shuttle “Buran” was launched in 1988, not in 2018, and did not fly to Mars.
  35. On 29th April 2021, UAE astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi became the first Arab astronaut to complete a spacewalk.
  36. Yang Liwei was the first Chinese person in space.
  37. An artificial satellite is a man-made object placed into orbit, and is in a state of rapid evolution in terms of technology.
  38. On 16th June 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
  39. Tom Whittaker of the USA is the first disabled person to scale Mount Everest.
  40. Prince Sultan Salman Saud of Saudi Arabia is the first Muslim who went into space.
  41. Lt-Col Aleksey A. Leonov of the former Soviet Union is the first man who walked in space.
  42. Laika, the dog (sent by Russians) is the first animal to be sent into space.
  43. Lunakhod I of the former USSR is the first wheeled vehicle on the moon.
  44. The space shuttle of NASA is the first reusable manned space vehicle.