Event | Name of the Person | Vehicle | Date |
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First animal in space | Laika, the dog | Sputnik-2 | 03 Nov 1957 |
First primate in space | Albert II, a rhesus monkey | V-2 | 14 Jun 1949 |
First man in space | Maj Yuri Gagarin | Vostok 1 | 12 Apr 1961 |
First woman in space | Valentina Tereshkova | Vostok 6 | 16 Jun 1963 |
First person to walk in space | Alexei Leonov | Voskhod 2 | 18 Mar 1965 |
First woman to walk in space | Svetlana Savitskaya | Salyut 7 | 25 Jul 1984 |
First American in space | Allan Shepard | MR-3 (Freedom 7) | 05 May 1961 |
First American to orbit the earth | John Glenn | Friendship 7 | 20 Feb 1962 |
First man on moon | Neil Armstrong | Apollo 11 | 20 Jul 1969 |
First Indian in space | Sqn Ldr Rakesh Sharma | Soyuz T-11 | 02 Apr 1984 |
First US woman in space | Sally Ride | STS-7 (Challenger) | 18 Jun 1983 |
First space tourist | Dennis Tito | Soyuz TM32/31 | 28 Apr 2001 |
First woman space tourist | Anousheh Ansari | Soyuz TMA9 | 18 Sep 2006 |
First Indian (American) Woman in space | Kalpana Chawla | Spaceship Columbia | 19 Nov 1997 |
First Chinese in space | Lt Col Yang Liwei | Shenzou V | 15 Oct 2003 |
First Chinese woman in space | Liu Yang | Shenzou 9 | 16 Jun 2012 |
First female commander of a space shuttle | Eileen Collins | Discovery | 03 Feb 1995 |
First female commander of International Space Station | Peggy Whitson | - | October 2007 |