Important Questions Related to Space
First country to send a satellite into space: Soviet Union (now Russia, following the dissolution)
First satellite to reach space: Sputnik (4 October 1957)
First dog to go into space: Laika (sent by the Soviet Union on 3 November 1957)
First human to go into space: Yuri Gagarin (12 April 1961)
First woman to go into space: Valentina Tereshkova (sent by the Soviet Union on 16 June 1963)
First Indian to go into space: Rakesh Sharma (reached via a Soviet Union mission in April 1984)
First Indian-American female astronaut: Kalpana Chawla
First spacecraft to orbit the Moon: Luna-10 (March 1966)
First country to send a man to the Moon: USA
First human to set foot on the Moon: Neil Armstrong (reached in 1969 via the US spacecraft Apollo-11)
First country to send an uncrewed spacecraft to Mars: USA
First spacecraft to land on Mars: Viking-1