Statistics for history of space exploration

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Hint	Year	Answer	% Correct
First satellite into space	1957	sputnik 1	100%
First human in space	1961	Yuri Gagarin	86%
First person to walk on the moon	1969	Neil Armstrong	76%
First animal in space	1957	Laika	71%
First rocket into space	1944	V2	71%
First crewed lunar landing	1969	Apollo 11	57%
First crewed lunar orbiter	1968	Apollo 8	43%
First object to touch another celestial body	1959	luna 2	33%
First Venus flyby	1961	venera 1	29%
First spacewalker	1965	Alexei Leonov	24%
First Mars flyby	1965	Mariner 4	24%
First object to touch another planet	1966	venera 3	24%
First object in heliocentric orbit	1959	luna 1	19%
First Pluto flyby	2015	New Horizons	19%
First production car in space	2018	Tesla Roadster	19%
First Neptune flyby	1989	Voyager 2	19%
First Uranus flyby	1986	Voyager 2	19%
First international space mission	1975	Apollo-Soyuz	14%
First outer solar system lander	2005	Huygens	14%
First to exit the heliosphere	2012	Voyager 1	14%
First Mercury flyby	1975	Mariner 10	10%
First Jupiter flyby	1974	Pioneer 10	10%
First Saturn flyby	1979	Pioneer 11	10%
First space station	1971	Salyut 1	10%
First asteroid flyby	1991	Galileo	5%
First to orbit another celestial body	1966	luna 10	5%
First lunar rover	1970	Lunokhod 1	5%
First mars rover	1996	Mars Pathfinder	5%
First asteroid landing	2001	NEAR Shoemaker	5%
First lift-off from an extraterrestrial body	1967	Surveyor 6	5%
First images from another planet	1975	Venera 9	5%