India First In Science and Technology
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First Hydroelectric Plant
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On the Ganganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka, built in 1902
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First City to have electricity
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Banglore, in 1906
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First Man in Space
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Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 03, 1984. He was the 138th man in space world-wide.
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First Women in Space
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Kalpana Chawla aboard Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87, on November 19,1997
She was a naturalized United States citizen, and represented the US during the event. |
First Test-tube baby
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Durga Agarwal, born 1978
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First Scienfific Expedition to Antarctica
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1981
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First Nuclear Reactor
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Tarapur, Maharashtra
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First Genetically Modified Food Product in India
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Bt. Egg Plant Hybrid
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First Satellite
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Aryabhatta, launched on April 19, 1975
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First Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services
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EDUSET
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First Successfully Indigenous Launch Vehicle
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SLV-3
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The first person in the world to land on the moon
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Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E Aldrin Jr of USA (Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon followed by Aldrin) - July 21, 1969
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First man to enter space (or the world's first cosmonaut)
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Yuri Gagarin (Russian)
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The first returnable space shuttle
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Colombia
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The first disabled satellite repaired in space
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Solar Max
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The first unmanned moon-buggy to explore surface of the moon
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Lunokhod-I (Russia)
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The first unmanned spaceship to have soft-landed and lifted off from the moon to return to earth.
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Luna - 16 (Russia) (Sept. 21, 1970)
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The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon
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Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick named "Eagle"
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The first country to send men on the moon
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USA
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The first to launch earth satellite or "artificial baby moon"
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Russia
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The first woman cosmonaut of the world
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Valentina Tereshkova (Russian)
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The first person to float in space
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Alexei Lenov (Russian)
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The first American astronaut (and second person in the world) to float in space
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Edward White
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The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon
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USSR
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The first space rocket to hit the moon
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Lunik-II
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The first spaceship in the world to sample moon's crust
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Surveyor-3 (USA)
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The first space vehicle to soft-land on Moon
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Luna-9 (Russia)
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The first space vehicle to orbite the moon
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Luna-10 (Russia)
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The first space-craft to leave solar system
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Pioneer II
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The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space
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Apollo-9 (USA)
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The first manned spacehip to perform space flight round the moon
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Apollo-8 (USA)
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First Automatic Exchange installed
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Shimla 1913-14
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12 channel carrier system introduced
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1953
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First satellite earth station for domestic communications established at
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Secunderabad, A.P. 1980
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First optical fibre system for local junction
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Pune 1979
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First digital microwave junction introduced
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1976
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First PCM system commissioned
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Mumbai City and Andheri telephone exchanges In 1975
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First subscriber trunk dialing route commissioned
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Lucknow and Kanpur In 1960
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First Underground Metro Railways System
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Kolkata 1984
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First mobile telephone service started on non-commercial basis
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15 August 1995 in Delhi
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First Women In Space
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Kalpana Chawla
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Telegraph service opened to the Public
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1854
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First wireless telegraph station established
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Sagar Islands and Sandheads In 1902
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India First In Science and Technology
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