Famous Firsts in Space History!

The American space station Atlantis and the _________ space station Mir had their first meetup in space in 1995.

The first monkey was sent to space was a male rhesus monkey named ________.

What was the name of the United States' first man-in-space program launched in 1958?

Name the person from The Soviet Union who became the first person in space.

The cat named _______ was part of a group of 14 cats trained for space travel.

Who became the first person to break free from the tether connecting him to the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1984?

The first American astronauts were introduced in the year _______.

________ became the first woman to command a Space Shuttle mission.

The first crew was made up of a combination of ________ and _______ cosmonauts boarded the International Space Station in 2000.

The world's first space tourist named ________ made the trip in 2001.

_______ became the first American in space less than a month after Soviet Yuri Gagarin.

_______ made the first commercial visit to the International Space Station in 2012.

_______ became the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962.

The first real and successful venture to Pluto was conducted in the year ________.

The Soviet astronaut ________ became the first woman in space in 1963.

Name the first man to get married in space in 2003.

A group of ________ was the first insects to aboard the American V-2 rocket.

The first space shuttle named the Columbia reached orbit in the year _______.

Who became the first American woman to serve on the Russian space station Mir in 1996?

The first African American to go to space in 1983 was ________.