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(^22) Bruce McCandless
made the first untethered
spacewalk in February 1984.
(^23) John Glenn was the first
American to orbit Earth, in
- He became the oldest
space voyager in 1998, aged 77.
(^24) Green tree frogs were taken
to the Mir space station in 1990.
(^25) Buzz Aldrin was the second
person to set foot on the Moon.
(^26) Swordtail fish travelled
on board the space shuttle
Columbia in 1998.
(^27) Squirrel monkeys and
24 albino rats were taken
to Spacelab-3 in 1985.
(^17) Mike Melvill was the first
commercial astronaut. He piloted
SpaceShipOne in June 2004.
(^18) Valentina Tereshkova was the
first woman to fly into space. She
made a three-day journey aboard
Vostok 6 in June 1963.
(^19) Gennady Padalka holds the
record for the total time spent
in space. In his five trips, he has
clocked up 878.5 days in space.
(^20) Sam was a rhesus monkey
who was sent into space in 1960
to test equipment that would be
used in future manned flights.
(^21) Valeri Polyakov holds the
record for the longest time spent
in space during one trip. His
record stands at 437.7 days.
(^28) Arabella, a spider, was sent
to the Skylab space station
in 1973. Once space-adapted,
she spun perfect webs.
(^29) Albino rats (see above).
(^30) Quail chicks hatched
from eggs on the Mir space
station in March 1990.
(^31) Belka and Strelka
became the first dogs to
go into orbit and survive
the journey in 1960.
(^32) Ham was the first
chimpanzee to travel in space.
In 1961, he was sent to test
equipment that would be
used in the first US manned
space mission.
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