Space
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Akiyama - Toyohiro ..... television journalist who was the FIRST paying passenger in space when he travelled with the crew of the Soviet Soyuz TM11 after TBS Television (Japan) paid his fare in 1990
Allen - James Van (Professor) ….. pioneered the FIRST American satellite, Explorer 1, which was launched in 1958. He is best known however for his discovery of the radiation belts that surround the Earth
Armstrong - Neil Alden ..... born 5th August 1930 ...... American who was the FIRST man to walk on the moon
Aziz - Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul ..... FIRST Saudi astronaut, he is director of his country's national tourist commission
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Bennett - Steve ..... U.K ..... NOVA, the FIRST privately-funded spacecraft was launched by Steve Bennett
Bluford - Guion ..... U.S.A ..... FIRST black astronaut when he flew his first space shuttle mission, as a mission specialist, in 1983
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Cassini probe ..... in 2004 it became the FIRST space vehicle to enter orbit around the giant Saturn planet after slipping between two of the rings and began a four year mission to explore the planet and its moons. The probe was launched by America in 1997 and took seven years to complete its 2.2 billion mile journey
Chretien - Jean-Loup ..... in 1982 he was the FIRST French person to go into space
Collins - Michael ..... born 31st October 1930 ..... American astronaut who piloted the command module in the FIRST moon landing in 1969
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Explorer 1 ..... America's FIRST earth satellite which was launched in 1958
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Gagarin- Yuri ..... born March 9th 1934 died 1968 ..... Russian cosmonaut who was the FIRST man ever to go into space. Born in the Smolensk region he qualified as a foundry man but became a pilot in 1967. He died in a plane crash while training for the Soyuz 3 mission. His awards were the Order of Lenin and the titles of Hero Of The Soviet Union and Pilot Cosmonaut Of The Soviet Union
Glenn - John ..... born 1921..... the FIRST American to circle the Earth when he made a three-orbit flight in the 'Friendship 7' space capsule on Feb 20th 1962
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Ham ..... the FIRST 'astrochimp' was blasted into space by the Americans in 1961. He returned to earth safely and was rewarded with an apple and half an orange. He died in 1983
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Leonov - Aleksey ..... USSR ..... in March 1965 he made the FIRST space walk
Liwei - Lt Col Yang ..... China's FIRST astronaut - October 2003
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Merbold - Ulf ..... in November 1983 he was the FIRST non-American astronaut to go into space and the FIRST German
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Ramon - Ilan ..... Israel's FIRST astronaut when he joined the space shuttle Columbia in January 2003 for a 16-day research voyage
Remek - Vladimir ..... FIRST non-Soviet cosmonaut and the FIRST Czech to go into space - 1978
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Scott - David and James Irwin ..... Americans who were the FIRST ones to use the lunar rover vehicle (1971)
Sellers - Piers ..... FIRST Briton to walk in space when he went on the Atlantis mission in October 2002
Shepard - Alan Bartlett ….. born 18th November 1923 ….. FIRST American to make a space flight when on 5th May 1961 he was launched in 'Freedom 7' for a 15-minute flight, controlling the whole flight manually. In 1971 he commanded the Apollo 14 lunar mission
Shukor - Sheikh Muszaphar ..... Malaysia's FIRST spaceman
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Telstar ..... in July 1962 it was the FIRST satellite to carry television signals across the Atlantic Ocean
Tito - Dennis ….. RUSSIAN ..... in April 2001 he became the FIRST ever space tourist
Titov - Gherman ….. born 11th September 1935 died 2000 ….. Russian cosmonaut who was the second man to orbit the Earth , FIRST man to spend a whole day in space ( August 6th 1961) and the FIRST to sleep there when he was launched aboard Vostok (East)11 on August 6th 1961
Tnuva Milk ..... FIRST television commercial to be filmed in space
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Voskhod ..... Soviet spacecraft which was the FIRST spacecraft capable of carrying two or three cosmonauts. Alexei Leonov made the FIRST space walk during the second Voskhod flight in 1965
Vostok ..... FIRST Soviet spacecraft, capable of carrying one cosmonaut. Vostok 1 carried the FIRST person into space, Yuri Gagarin
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White - Edmund ..... U.S.A ..... in June 1965 he made the FIRST American space walk
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Young - John ..... U.S.A ..... pilot of the FIRST space shuttle and in 1968 in Gemini 3 he ate the FIRST hamburger in space