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William Anders, American citizen, first launched 21 December 1968, was the first Hong Kong-born man in space. Vladimir Shatalov, first launched 14 January 1969, was the first Kazakh-born man in space. At the time, Kazakhstan was a part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The most recent person and first geologist to have arrived on the Moon Vladimír Remek, 88th person in space and the first from a country other than the US or the Soviet Union Sigmund Jähn, 91st person in space and the first German Georgi Ivanov, 93rd person in space and the first Bulgarian Phạm Tuân, 97th person in space, and the first ...
First words spoken from another world. USA (NASA) Apollo 11 [27] 21 July 1969 First space launch from another celestial body. First sample return from another celestial body. USA (NASA) Apollo 11 [27] 19 November 1969: First rendezvous on the surface of a celestial body. First meet up between human explorers and a robotic spacecraft in space ...
The program was the first program to put humans into space, with Yuri Gagarin becoming the first man in space on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1. [79] Gherman Titov became the first person to stay in orbit for a full day on August 7, 1961, aboard the Vostok 2 . [ 80 ]
First crew transfer between space vehicles. First docking of two crewed spacecraft. 32 Aleksei Yeliseyev (1) Yevgeny Khrunov: 15 January 1969 Soyuz 5: 17 January 1969 Soyuz 4: First crew transfer between space vehicles. First docking of two crewed spacecraft. Boris Volynov (1) 18 January 1969 Soyuz 5: 33 James McDivitt (2) David Scott (2) Rusty ...
Countries (and successor states) whose citizens have flown in space as of January 2024. The criteria for determining who has achieved human spaceflight vary. The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) defines spaceflight as any flight over 100 kilometres (62 mi), while in the United States, professional, military and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 ...
Vega 1: First comet flyby (with pictures returned). Distance of 8,890 kilometres (5,520 mi). USSR 6 March 1986 Earth: Mir Core Module, Kvant-1: First modular space station. USSR 9 April 1987 Orbital Spaceplane: Buran: First fully automated orbital flight of a spaceplane (with airstrip landing). USSR 15 November 1988 Phobos: Phobos 2: First flyby.
Sputnik 1: 4 October 1957 First Earth orbiter [1] [2] Sputnik 2: 3 November 1957 Earth orbiter, first animal in orbit, a dog named Laika [2] [3] [4] Explorer 1: 1 February 1958 Earth orbiter; discovered Van Allen radiation belts [5] Vanguard 1: 17 March 1958 Earth orbiter; oldest spacecraft still in Earth orbit [6] Luna 1: 2 January 1959