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| First Hydroelectric Plant | On the Ganganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka, built in 1902 |
| First City to have electricity | Banglore, in 1906 (it was in fact the first city to have electricity) |
| First Man in Space | Rakesh Sharma aboard Salyut 7, on April 03, 1984. He was the 138th man in space world-wide. |
| First Women in Space | 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 | Durga Agarwal, born 1978 |
| First Scienfific Expedition to Antarctica | 1981 |
| First Nuclear Reactor | Tarapur, Maharashtra |
| First Genetically Modified Food Product in India | Bt. Egg Plant Hybrid |
| First Satellite | Aryabhatta, launched on April 19, 1975 |
| First Satellite dedicated exclusively for educational services | EDUSET |
| First Successfully Indigenous Launch Vehicle | SLV-3 |
| The first person in the world to land on the moon | 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 |
| First man to enter space (or the world's first cosmonaut) | Yuri Gagarin (Russian) |
| The first returnable space shuttle | Colombia |
| The first disabled satellite repaired in space | Solar Max |
| The first unmanned moon-buggy to explore surface of the moon | Lunokhod-I (Russia) |
| The first unmanned spaceship to have soft-landed and lifted off from the moon to return to earth. | Luna - 16 (Russia) (Sept. 21, 1970) |
| The first manned space vehicle to land on the moon | Lunar Exploration Module (LEM) nick named "Eagle" |
| The first country to send men on the moon | USA |
| The first to launch earth satellite or "artificial baby moon" | Russia |
| The first woman cosmonaut of the world | Valentina Tereshkova (Russian) |
| The first person to float in space | Alexei Lenov (Russian) |
| The first American astronaut (and second person in the world) to float in space | Edward White |
| The first country to launch a cosmic space rocket towards moon | USSR |
| The first space rocket to hit the moon | Lunik-II |
| The first spaceship in the world to sample moon's crust | Surveyor-3 (USA) |
| The first space vehicle to soft-land on Moon | Luna-9 (Russia) |
| The first space vehicle to orbite the moon | Luna-10 (Russia) |
| The first space-craft to leave solar system | Pioneer II |
| The first American manned spaceship to perform crew transfer in space | Apollo-9 (USA) |
| The first manned spacehip to perform space flight round the moon | Apollo-8 (USA) |
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