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  1. 3. This plant holds the Guinness World Record for being ‘the first plant to flower', on board the Soviet Union’s Salyut-7 space station in the year 1982.
  2. 4. She was the first Indian woman to go into space. The entire crew of Columbia could not survive as the space shuttle in which they were returning from space exploded.
  3. 7. On 12th April 1961 this Russian Cosmonaut became the first man to go into space. The spacecraft, Vostok 1, circled the earth for 108 minutes, and landed back on earth after two hours.
  4. 9. These were the first animals to be launched into space in the year 1947. For food, they had corn on the spacecraft.
  5. 10. This Russian woman was the first woman in the world to go into space in the year 1963. She even has a crater named after her on the far side of the Moon.
  6. 11. He was the second man to step on the moon alongside the first man.
  7. 14. Boeing, the aeroplane company that makes the Jumbo Jet developed this moon car in 1971. It was called the _________ and was used to explore the moon.
  8. 15. He was the first Indian astronaut to go into space.
  9. 17. This was the first satellite that was launched into space on 4th October 1957 by Russia. It was also the first satellite that orbited around the earth. The name of this satellite means "Satellite" in Russian.
  10. 18. The first monkey to travel into space on 14th June 1949. The rocket flew to a height of 83 miles from the earth.
  11. 19. The first rocket launched in the year 1942 , reached 100 km from the surface of the Earth, i.e. reach the boundary of space. It was designed by Wernher Von Braun.
  12. 20. The first animal to orbit the earth was this Russian space dog. It travelled in Sputnik 2 In November 1957. Its name means "Barker" in Russian. Sending it in space helped scientists to observe and research if human beings could survive in space.
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  1. 1. He was the first man to step on the moon on 20th July 1969.
  2. 2. He is considered as the “Father of Indian Space Program”. He was instrumental in establishing ISRO.
  3. 5. This was the first spacecraft that was completely designed and fabricated in India. It was named after a famous Indian astronomer. This satellite was launched by a Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket on April 19, 1975.
  4. 6. This is a huge space station for research and space exploration that began construction in 1986, with the final major module arriving in 2010.
  5. 8. This American millionaire became the first space tourist on 28th April 2001. He paid an amount of approximately 20 million dollars for a ride in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. He spent almost a week in the ISS.
  6. 12. This was India’s first experimental satellite launch vehicle that put the satellite Rohini into the orbit around the earth. This marked the entry of India as a sixth member of the exclusive space club of nations.
  7. 13. She was the first British astronaut to go into space in 1989. She spent eight days in space conducting scientific experiments.
  8. 16. This is the first Indian satellite to orbit the moon. It was launched on 22 October 2008, Sriharikota. The satellite made more than 3400 orbits around the moon.