First In World : Miscellaneous 6

Role

Miscellaneous

First unmanned spaceship to have softlanded and lifted off from moon to return to the earth

Luna-16 (USSR) Sep. 21, 1970 

 First space vehicle to land on the moon

Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nicknamed 'Eagle' 

 First space ship which carried three American Astronauts to land two of them to moon

Apollo-11 

 First country to send man to moon

USA 

 First space rocket brought back to earth after orbiting the moon

Zond-5 

 First crew transfer between the orbiting space ship

Soyuz T-15 with Mir Space Station 

 First mission of a ling-up in space by manned space ships of USA and Soviet Union 

Apollo-Soyuj Test Project Mission (ASTP) 

 First man to fly into space belonging to a country other than Russia or the USA

Remek (Czechoslovakia) 

 First country to send nuclear powered space craft to explore Jupiter

USA 

 First Country to launch earth satellite or artificial baby moon

USSR 

 First spaceship in the world to sample moon's crust

Surveyor-3 (USA) 

 First space vehicle to soft land on moon

Luna 9 (USSR) 

 First manned spaceship to perforn the longest stay in space (11 days)

Apollo 7 (USA) 

 First vessel ever to reach the North Pole by sailing through the thick Arctic ice

Soviet Arktika Atomic-powered (ice-breaker) 

 First cross word puzzle in the world was published

By London Sunday Express

First country to issue stamps

Britain

First demonstration of motion picture was held at

Paris

 First animated colour cartoon of full feature length 

 Snow white and seven dwarfs

 First country that brings out the FIAT

Italy 

 first space worthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet

 Colombia