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First in Space	Name	Year
First animal in space	Laika (Dog)	1957
First man in space	Yuri Gagarin	1961
First American in space	Allan Shepard	1961
First woman in space	Valentina Tereshkova	1963
First man to walk in space	Alexei Leonov	1965
First man to land on moon	Neil Armstrong	1969
First US woman in space	Sally Ride	1983
First woman to walk in space	Svetlana Savitskaya	1984
First Indian in space	Rakesh Sharma	1984
First Indian (US) woman in space	Kalpana Chawla	1997
First space tourist	Denis Tito	2001
First woman space tourist	Anousheh Ansari	2006
First Satellite in Space	Name of the Satellite	Year
First satellite in space	Sputnik (USSR)	1957
First US satellite	Explorer I	1958
First British satellite	Ariel I	1962
First Chinese satellite	Don Fang Hong I	1970
First French satellite	Asterix	1965
First Indian satellite	Aryabhatta	1975