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Topic: List of astronaut and space firsts
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jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 08-21-2009 05:37 PM
   
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Originally posted by Ken Havekotte:
Besides GT-4, can you name at least 4 (or more!) US all-rookie crews?
Well... - GT-4 (McDivitt and White)
- GT-7 (Borman and Lovell)
- GT-8 (Armstrong and Scott)
- Skylab 4 (Carr, Pogue and Gibson)
- STS-2 (as stated earlier)
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webhamster
Member Posts: 106
From: Ottawa, Canada
Registered: Jul 2008
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posted 08-24-2009 11:02 PM
STS-61-A: First and only flight with 8 crewmembers. |
Shuttleman
Member Posts: 117
From: Huntsville, Al. USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 08-25-2009 01:23 PM
The first American guitar (CF Martin) flown into space on STS-62 (March 4, 1994) by astronaut Pierre J.Thuot. I received a Manned Flight Awareness Honoree Award, so I got to see that launch. I play a Martin guitar today... |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 08-25-2009 01:30 PM
First rookie to be put in the position of flying the Apollo CSM solo (ending the Deke Slayton requirement that such an individual have spaceflight experience): Al Worden (as backup CMP Apollo 12). First rookie to actually do so: Stuart Roosa. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-29-2009 10:26 AM
- First person to eject from a spacecraft - Gagarin.
- First person to pee in a spacecraft - Al Shepard on Freedom 7.
- First person to fall asleep during a launch sequence - Gordon Cooper on Faith 7. [I hate numbers when the spacecraft had names.]
- First person to die on a flight - Komarov on Soyuz 1.
- First person to carry a match to light the rocket - Tom Stafford on Gemini 6.
- First object lost in space - a glove on Gemini 4.
- First, and only, person to fly the length of Skylab - Al Bean.
- First rendezvous by a crewed spacecraft - Vostoks 5 and 6. [They got within about a mile of each other so I suppose it counts].
- First voice transmission from space - a taped message by President Eisenhower broadcast by the Courier satellite.
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AstroAutos
Member Posts: 803
From: Co. Monaghan, Republic of Ireland
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 08-29-2009 06:05 PM
Not that they knew it at the time, but the first and only Gemini crew of which both astronauts would eventually be moonwalkers was Gemini 8 (Armstrong and Scott.) |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-30-2009 09:25 AM
An extra - the two Russians to transfer by EVA from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 were Yeliseyev and Khrunov.The first, and only, manned (crewed) Soyuz to land on water was Soyuz 23 - by accident rather than design. The first crew to dock with a Salyut space station were the crew of Soyuz 10 - they remained docked for five and a half hours. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-30-2009 10:18 AM
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Originally posted by moorouge:
First voice transmission from space - a taped message by President Eisenhower broadcast by the Courier satellite.
I believe this to be incorrect: the first voice transmission (also a taped message by President Eisenhower) was by Project SCORE (Signal Communications Orbit Relay Equipment). |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-30-2009 05:09 PM
You are quite correct Robert. Courier was the first active relay satellite.Whilst on relaying signals from space - Echo 1 was the first satellite to have visibility data published in newspapers in the UK and I assume elsewhere. |
John Charles
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 08-30-2009 06:40 PM
quote:
Originally posted by randy:
First space craft to explore Mercury - Messenger...
Mariner 10, 1973 |
Spacefest
Member Posts: 1168
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2009
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posted 08-30-2009 11:05 PM
"I'z th' first guy ta eat spaghetti on th' mune" -Alan Bean. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-31-2009 04:46 AM
Some more communications firsts - - Telstar (July 1962) - first trans-Atlantic TV feed. Believe Telstar is still in orbit.
- Syncom 2 - first communications satellite in synchronous orbit.
- Early Bird (April 1965) - first INTELSAT commercial satellite. [footnote - a failure of an Intelsat relay over the Atlantic nearly caused a postponement of Apollo 11. NASA resorted to undersea telephone cables to provide the necessary links.]
- Molniya - first Russian communication satellite.
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moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 08-31-2009 06:35 AM
Some animal firsts: - Fruit flies in 1947.
- First monkey - Albert 2 in 1949. First monkey to orbit was Gordo in 1958 but its capsule was not recovered.
- First dog(s) - Gypsy and Dezik in 1951.
- First dog into orbit was Laika aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957.
- First mouse - launched in 1950.
- If mice are in space you have to have a cat to catch them. So, in 1963, France sent Felix on a sub-orbital flight.
- First non-human round the Moon - a tortoise in 1968 aboard a Russian Zond capsule.
- And - though not flying - one should not forget the contribution made by Bessie (a pig) who was used in drop tests to verify the seats in Project Mercury.
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moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 09-07-2009 05:23 AM
Another first - first docking between spacecraft - the unmanned Cosmos 186 and 188 satellites in October 1967. |
astro-nut
Member Posts: 946
From: Washington, IL
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 09-07-2009 02:31 PM
The first spaceflight with two U.S. Army officers aboard? STS-44 (Jim Voss and Tom Hennan). GO ARMY!!!!! |
John Charles
Member Posts: 339
From: Houston, Texas, USA
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-07-2009 03:10 PM
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Originally posted by moorouge:
First rendezvous by a crewed spacecraft - Vostoks 5 and 6. [They got within about a mile of each other so I suppose it counts].
Wally Schirra himself poo-poo'd Russian claims of rendezvous between Vostoks 3 and 4 and 5 and 6: Somebody said ...when you come to within three miles (5 km), you've rendezvoused. If anybody thinks they've pulled a rendezvous off at three miles (5 km), have fun! This is when we started doing our work. I don't think rendezvous is over until you are stopped - completely stopped - with no relative motion between the two vehicles, at a range of approximately 120 feet. That's rendezvous! From there on, it's stationkeeping. That's when you can go back and play the game of driving a car or driving an airplane or pushing a skateboard -- it's about that simple. According to Wikipedia, none other than Vasiliy Mishin agreed with Schirra. |
Rex Hall
Member Posts: 170
From: London, England
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 09-07-2009 05:50 PM
First Jewish astronaut was not Resnik but a Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov and here is a story. His parents were Jewish. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 09-08-2009 06:58 AM
Vostoks 3 and 4 would have had a hard time making a rendezvous as they weren't in orbit at the same time. |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 09-08-2009 07:32 AM
Ah. But they make glorious first for People of Soviet Union - first rendezvous of space ships on GROUND! |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 09-08-2009 03:14 PM
So someone spotted my deliberate mistake. Glad we're all paying attention!  |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 09-08-2009 09:05 PM
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Originally posted by AstroAutos:
First person to have a pee on the moon - Buzz Aldrin coming down the ladder of the LM before he set foot on the surface..
Unless Armstrong had to fill his bag in the LM, probably. But, no one can doubt that Buzz was the first to boldly "go" where no man had "gone" before.  |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 649
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 09-09-2009 10:26 AM
First American to drink an alcoholic beverage on a mission: Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11 |
TRS
Member Posts: 721
From: Wellington, New Zealand
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 09-09-2009 05:33 PM
Valery Kubasov - first person to weld in space.Part of a test conducted (without Apollo 18 attached) to identify options for repair of Soyuz craft on orbit. He described it as being "very dangerous!" |
Delta7
Member Posts: 1505
From: Bluffton IN USA
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted 09-09-2009 05:50 PM
quote:
Originally posted by TRS:
Part of a test conducted (without Apollo 18 attached) to identify options for repair of Soyuz craft on orbit.
I think that was done on his first mission, Soyuz 6. |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3118
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-09-2009 06:01 PM
Right cosmonaut, wrong mission: Kubasov conducted welding operations on Soyuz 6 in 1969.On edit: Curses! Out-geeked again! |
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