First in the World

Field	Person
The First person to land on the moon	Neil A. Amstrong (U.S.A)
The First to launch search Satellite or "artificial moon"	U.S.S.R.
The first man to enter space	Late Maj. Yuri Gagarin (USSR)
The first woman cosmonaut in the world	Valentina Tereshkova
The first Woman Astronant pilot	Lt.Col.Eileen Marie Collin (US)
The first person to float in space	Alexei Leonav (Russia)
The first American astronaut (2nd in world) to floatin space	Edward White
The first Russian cosmonaut to make two space flights	Late Col. Vladimir Komarov
The first American astronaut to make two space flights	Gordon Cooper (U.S.A.)
The first manned space ship longest stay in space for 11 days	Apollo - 7 (U.S.A.)
The first manned spaceship to space flight round the moon	Apollo - 8 (U.S.A.)
The first space craft to leave solar system	Pioneer - II (U.S.A.)
The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon	U.S.S.R.
First crew transfer between orbiting space ships	Soyuz-4 and Soyuz-5 (U.S.S.R.)
The first man to stay long in space	Valery Ryumin
The first space shuttle	Columbia (U.S.A.)
The first woman to command a space shuttle mission (Columbia)	Eileen Collins (U.S.A.)
The first tourist to space	Dennis Tito (U.S.A.)