Pre-apollo
This NASA program preceded the Apollo program
What is the Gemini program
The first satellite in space
What is Sputnik (1)
Who is Neil Armstrong
This is the farthest man-made object in space
What is Voyager 1
The first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on the Moon and return imagery from its surface
What is Luna 9
This was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963.
What is project Mercury or the Mercury program
The first American satellite in space
What is Explorer (1)
The first man in space
Who is Yuri Gagarin
This was a vehicle that reached Mars as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission and was the first wheeled vehicle to operate on an astronomical object other than the Earth or Moon.
What is Sojourner
The first spacecraft to touch the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body.
What is Luna 2
This rocket was the first United States human spaceflight, on May 5, 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first crewed flight of Project Mercury.
What is Mercury(-Redstone) 3 or Freedom 7
This was the world's first space station. It was launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971
What is Salyut 1 (Салют-1, 'Salute 1')
The first women in space
Who is Sally Ride
The first successful Mars lander in history.
What is Viking 1
The first American spacecraft to impact the moon
What is Ranger 7
This was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and was the first time two American astronauts flew together into space.
What was Gemini 3
This was the first crewed international space mission, conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975
What is Apollo–Soyuz
First man to step out of his spaceship and preform a space walk
Who is Alexei Leonov
The first spacecraft to execute a successful soft landing on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth.
What is Venera 7 (Венера-7, 'Venus 7')
The first robotic rover on the Moon and the first to freely move across the surface of an astronomical object beyond the Earth. The first successful Lunar rover.
What is Lunokhod 1 (Луноход-1, 'Moonwalker 1')
This was the first human spaceflight to carry more than one crewman into orbit, the first flight without the use of spacesuits, and the first to carry either an engineer or a physician into outer space.
What was Voskhod 1 (Восход-1, 'Sunrise-1')
This was the United States' first space station, launched by NASA operational from May 1973 to February 1974.
What is Skylab
The last man to walk on the moon
Who is Eugene Cernan
In 2010 this was the first successful solar sail.
What is IKAROS
The spacecrafts "Hiten" and "Hagoromo" made this country the third country to impact the moon.
What is Japan