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  1. 1. Who or what achieved the First artificial satellite?

    1. Alexei Leonov
    2. Wright brothers
    3. Sputnik 1
    4. Magellan-Elcano expedition

  2. 2. Who or what achieved the First human in space?

    1. United States census
    2. Charles Lindbergh
    3. Technetium
    4. Yuri Gagarin

  3. 3. Who or what achieved the First woman in space?

    1. Stockholm and Oslo
    2. Sirimavo Bandaranaike
    3. Joshua Slocum
    4. Valentina Tereshkova

  4. 4. Who or what achieved the First person to perform a spacewalk?

    1. Athens
    2. China
    3. League of Nations
    4. Alexei Leonov

  5. 5. Who or what achieved the First humans to land on the Moon?

    1. Armenia
    2. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
    3. Louise Brown
    4. London Underground

  6. 6. Who or what achieved the First person to step on the Moon?

    1. Nicéphore Niépce
    2. London Underground
    3. Neil Armstrong
    4. Luna 9

  7. 7. Who or what achieved the First reusable spacecraft to reach orbit?

    1. Colossus
    2. Space Shuttle Columbia
    3. Stockholm and Oslo
    4. Alexander Fleming

  8. 8. Who or what achieved the First space station?

    1. Neil Armstrong
    2. Salyut 1
    3. Nicéphore Niépce
    4. George Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1

  9. 9. Who or what achieved the First probe to make a soft landing on the Moon?

    1. Luna 9
    2. CERN website created by Tim Berners-Lee
    3. Roald Amundsen
    4. ENIAC

  10. 10. Who or what achieved the First truly successful landing on Mars?

    1. Viking 1
    2. Yellowstone National Park
    3. Marie Curie
    4. Alexei Leonov

  11. 11. Who or what achieved the First powered, controlled airplane flight?

    1. Wright brothers
    2. Magellan-Elcano expedition
    3. Salyut 1
    4. Thomas Edison's system

  12. 12. Who or what achieved the First solo nonstop transatlantic flight?

    1. Louise Brown
    2. Wright brothers
    3. Trygve Lie
    4. Charles Lindbergh