No space station has orbited the moon. The first earth-orbiting space station was Skylab.
It didn't First off, sputnik was a "family name" for a series of satellites, but none that went to the Moon. Sputnik only orbited the earth.
According to NASA's website, Apollo 8 was the name of the spacecraft which was launched on December 21, 1968, 7:51 AM, orbited the moon, and landed in the Pacific Ocean on December 27, 10:52 AM.
It depends on what you're looking for. Apollo 8 orbited the moon on December 24, 1968. Apollo 11 became the first mission to land on the moon on July 10, 1969.
It wasn't actually an astronaut. It was a Russian cosmonaut by the name of Yuri Gegarin (I believe that is how his name is spelled).
Usa, usa, usa!
Yuri A. Gagarin, on April 12th, 1961.
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The first confirmed case of an asteroid orbiting another asteroid is the asteroid Ida which is orbited by a smaller asteroid orbiting it called Dactyl; other asteroid moons have been found since.
what is the name of the other two space shutles that have orbited earth? name both or and tell me how and why they did it.
No Indian Space Shuttle has ever landed on the moon. The only country that has ever physically landed on the moon is the United States.
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