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Laika was the first animal to enter orbit into space.
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Gherman Titov was the youngest astronaut to go into space. He was also the first person to orbit earth 17 times and spend more than a day in space
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Thomas Stafford, John W. Young, and Eugene Cernan reached the fastest time in space reaching 24,790 mph!
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In the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and the other crew members were the first people to walk on the moon. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” was what Neil had said on the moon.
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Buzz Aldrin was the second person to walk on the moon after Neil Armstrong. He was the Lunar module pilot on Apollo 11.
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Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert were the farthest from earth in Apollo 13 reaching 158 miles from the lunar surface.
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Ronald Evans holds the record for longest time in the Lunar Orbit for 6 days and 4 hours (148 hours)!
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Guion Bluford Jr. was chosen by NASA to become an astronaut. He was a space station operator.
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Sally Ride was a mission specialist who was a crew member in a six day mission in Challenger. She was also the first woman to use a robot arm in space and the first to use the same arm to grab a satellite.
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Mae Jamison was aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. She was also a mission specialist on STS-47.
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Chiaki Mukai was the first female Japanese astronaut to go into space. Her first space shuttle mission was Columbia.
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Koichi Wakata was the first Japanese astronaut and the first Japanese Commander on the International Space Station.
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Sergei Krikalev’s the record holder for longest time in space. He spent 803 days (2.2 years) in space!
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Peggy Whitson is the record holder for the longest time in space as a woman. She was in space for 376 days!
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John Glenn is the oldest astronaut to go into space. He spent nine days with six other men in the Discovery Shuttle. He wanted to test the effects of space on elderly people.
