astronauts-{the travellers of the space}

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ASTRONAUTS

ASTRONAUT

• AN ASTRONAUT OR COSMONAUT IS A PERSON TRAINED BY A HUMAN SPACEFLIGHT PROGRAM TO COMMAND, PILOT, OR SERVE AS A CREW MEMBER OF A SPACECRAFT.

While generally reserved for

professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who travels into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists.

Starting in the 1950s up until 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. With the sub-orbital flight of the privately funded Space Ship One in 2004, a new category of astronaut was created :- the commercial astronaut.

SpaceShipOne

• Space Ship One is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004. That same year, it won the US$10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Its mother ship was named "White Knight".

SPACE SHIP ONE

MILE STONES IN SPACE TRAVEL

THE FIRST HUMAN IN SPACE

• THE FIRST HUMAN IN SPACE WAS SOVIET YURI GAGARIN, WHO WAS LAUNCHED ON APRIL 12, 1961 ABOARD VOSTOK 1 AND ORBITED AROUND THE EARTH FOR 108 MINUTES. HE IS A RUSSIAN.

FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE

• Alan Shepard became the first American and second person in space on May 5, 1961 on a 15-minute sub-orbital flight.

THE FIRST INDIAN IN SPACE

• RAKESHSHARMA BECAME THE FIRST INDIAN TO TRAVEL INTO OUTER SPACE. HE FLEW ABOARD SOYUZ T-11 AS PART OF THE INTER COSMOS PROGRAM.

THE FIRST RUSSIAN WOMAN IN SPACE

The first woman in space was Soviet Valentina Tereshkova, who launched on June 16, 1963 aboard Vostok 6 and orbited Earth for almost three days.

FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE

• The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, during Space Shuttle Challenger's mission STS-7, on June 18, 1983.

FIRST INDIAN WOMAN IN SPACE

• SHE IS THE FIRST INDIAN WOMAN TO TRAVEL INTO SPACE. SHE FLEW ABROAD IN COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE IN 1997 AS A MISSION SPECIALIST.

THE FIRST SPACE WALKER

• Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to conduct an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), (commonly called a "spacewalk"), on March 18, 1965, on the Soviet Union's Voskhod 2 mission.

FIRST AMERICAN SPACE WALKER

• TWO AND A HALF MONTHS LATER ASTRONAUT ED WHITE BECAME THE FIRST AMERICAN TO DO SPACE WALK.

THE YOUNGEST PERSON TO FLY IN SPACE

• The youngest person to fly in space is Gherman Titov, who was 25 years old when he flew Vostok 2. Titov was also the first person to suffer space sickness.

THE OLDEST PERSON WHO HAS FLOWN IN SPACE

• The oldest person who has flown in space is John Glenn, who was 77 when he flew on STS-95.

LONGEST STAY IN SPACE

The longest stay

in space thus far has been 438 days, by Russian Valeri Polyakov.

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