India First In Science and Technology

India First In Science and Technology
First Hydroelectric Plant	On the Ganganachukki waterfall of the Sivasamudram Falls, Karnataka, built in 1902
First City to have electricity	Banglore, in 1906
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)
First Automatic Exchange installed	Shimla 1913-14
12 channel carrier system introduced	1953
First satellite earth station for domestic communications established at	Secunderabad, A.P. 1980
First optical fibre system for local junction	Pune 1979
First digital microwave junction introduced	1976
First PCM system commissioned	Mumbai City and Andheri telephone exchanges In 1975
First subscriber trunk dialing route commissioned	Lucknow and Kanpur In 1960
First Underground Metro Railways System	Kolkata 1984
First mobile telephone service started on non-commercial basis	15 August 1995 in Delhi
First Women In Space	Kalpana Chawla
Telegraph service opened to the Public	1854
First wireless telegraph station established	Sagar Islands and Sandheads In 1902