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First-Space, Visitors, Invaders &
Expeditioners
No. Space First

Name

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The first man to enter space

Yuri Gagarin (USSR) in 1961

02

The first person to land on the moon

Neil A Armstrong (USA) on

July 21, 1969

03

The first woman to enter space

Valentina Tereshkova (USSR)

in 1963

04

The first unmanned moon-buggy to explore

surface of the moon

Lunokhod-I (USSR)

05

The first spaceship which carried man on the

moon

Apollo-11

06

The first person to float (to walk) in space

Alexi Leonov (USSR)

07

The first space vehicle to softland on moon

Luna-9 (USSR)

08

The first reusable space shuttle

Columbia (USA)

09

The first person to walk in space without a

safety line

Bruce McCandless (USA)

10

The first satellite to be repaired in orbit

Solar Max

11

The first space rocket to hit the moon

Lunik II (USSR)

12

The first spacecraft to soft-land on Mars

Viking-I (USA)

13

The first artificial earth satellite

Sputnik-I of USSR (1957)

No. First Visitor & Invader

Name

01

The first European invader on Indian Soil

Alexander the Great

02

The first European to visit China

Marco Polo

03

The first Chinese Pilgrim who came to India

Fahien

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The first woman to conquer Mt.Everest

Mrs.Junko Tabei (Japan) in

1975

02

The first man to conquer Mt.Everest

Sherpa Tenzing (India) in

1953

03

The first man to have climbed Mt.Everest

twice

Nawang Gombu

04

The first person to sail round the world

Magellan (Portugal) in 1519

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