PIONEERS OF SPACE EXPLORATION YINKA FAGBEMIRO CSSTE

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PIONEERS OF SPACE EXPLORATION
YINKA FAGBEMIRO
CSSTE
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FIRST AMERICAN TO BUILD A ROCKET.

• Name Robert Goddard (1882-1945)
• Date March 16, 1926.

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FIRST ROCKET IN SPACE

• Name V2 missile
• Year Launched October 3, 1942
• Place Germany

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FIRST GERMAN TO BUILD A ROCKET

• Name Wernher Von Braun (1912 - 1977)
• Name of Rocket German V2 rocket
• Date October 3, 1942

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FIRST SATELLITE IN EARTHS ORBIT

• Name Sputnik 1 (Travelling Companion of the
  World)
• Launch Date October 4, 1957
• Country Soviet Union.

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FIRST ANIMAL IN SPACE

• Name Laika Barker
• Date November 3, 1957.
• The Dog died after few hours in Orbit!

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First Animal to return from Space.

• Name Belka and Strelka,
• Date August 19, 1960
• Spacecraft Soviet's Sputnik 5.
• Period spent Returned one day later.

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FIRST MAN IN SPACE

• Name Yuri Gagarin.
• Date April 12, 1961
• Nationality Soviet
• Space craft Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).

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FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE

• Name Alan Shepard (1923 1998)
• Date May 5, 1961
• Only person to play golf on the Moon

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FIRST MAN ON THE MOON.

• Name Neil Armstrong (1930- )
• Date July 20, 1961.
• Nationality American

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NEIL AMSTRONG ON THE MOON.
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FIRST SPACE TOURIST

• Name Tito Dennis
• Date April 28, 2001
• Nationality American
• Period spent 10 days

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FIRST AMERICAN IN ORBIT

• Name John Glenn (1921 )
• February 20, 1962.
• At age 77, Glenn became the
• oldest person ever to go into space

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FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE

• Name Valentina Tereshkova (March 6, 1937- )
• Date June 16,1963
• Nationality Soviet
• Mission Vostok 5 mission
• Period 3 days

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FIRST SPACE WALK

• Name Alexei Leonov
• Date March 18, 1965
• Nationality Soviet
• Spacecraft Voskhod 2

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FIRST AMERICAN TO DO SPACEWALK

• Name Edward H. White II
• Date June 3, 1965

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FIRST SPACE STATION

• Name Salyut- 1 (Salute)
• Date April 19, 1971
• Country Soviet Union.

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FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE

• Name Sally Ride (1951- )
• Date June 18, 1983.
• Spacecraft Space shuttle Challenger STS-7

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FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE

• Name Dr Mae Carol Jemison.
• Date Sept. 12, 1992
• Spacecraft Shuttle Endeavour.

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FIRST AFRICAN IN SPACE

• Name Mark Shuttleworth
• Date April 25, 2002.
• Nationality South African

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FIRST WEST AFRICAN NATION TO OWN AN EARTH
OBSERVATORY SATELLITE

• Country Nigeria
• Date 27th September, 2003.
• Name NigeriaSat-1

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FIRST WEST AFRICAN NATION TO OWN A COMMUNICATION
SATELLITE

• Country Nigeria
• Date May 14th, 2007
• Name NigcomSat-1

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FIRST WEST AFRICAN PUPIL ON A ZERO- G FLIGHT

• Name Stella Felix
• Date September 23rd, 2006.
• Nationality Nigerian.
• Stella was sponsored by the African Regional
  Centre for Space Science and Technology Education
  in English (ARCSSTE-E), Obafemi Awolowo
  University, Ile-Ife.

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FIRST CHINESE SPACEWALK

• NameTaikonaut Zhai Zhigang
• Spacecraft Shenzhou VII
• Date September 27, 2008.

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