Wikipedia:WikiProject Space 2019/DYK

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WikiProject Space 2019
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Preliminary list ("Primary crew" / "Secondary crew")

Michael Collins — first person to perform two spacewalks  Done approved Maspalomas Station — first to receive signal "One small step..."  Done approved Zond 5 — first earthlings around the Moon  Done approved Sputnik 1 — first artificial satellite in space  Done approved Mae Jemison — first black woman in space  Done approved David Scott — first docking in space  Done approved Luna 2 — first probe to impact the Moon (in work) Yuri Gagarin — first human in Earth orbit  Done approved Valentina Tereshkova — first woman in space Félicette — first cat in space  Working under review Vostok 1 – first crewed spaceflight Alexei Leonov — first spacewalk Lunokhod 1 — first rover on the moon Salyut 1 — first space station Bruce McCandless II — first untethered free flight Jan Davis & Mark C. Lee — first married couple to go into space together Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. Svetlana Savitskaya Sally Ride Kathryn D. Sullivan Alouette 1 Canadarm Soyuz 1 Vladimir Komarov Charles Bassett and Elliot See —  Done approved Valery Bykovsky Roger B. Chaffee —  Done approved Margaret Hamilton Jerrie Cobb

Nominations

Approved and reserved

To DYK promoters: please move approved nominations to this section using syntax * {{Did you know nominations/Sputnik 1}}

See also: Template_talk:Did you know/Approved § July 16–24 (50th Anniversary of Apollo 11)