Statistics for First Countries in Space

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Date	First Person	Flight	Answer	% Correct
April 12, 1961	Yuri Gagarin	Vostok 1	Soviet Union	99%
May 5, 1961	Alan Shepard	MR-3	United States	99%
June 24, 1982	Jean-Loup Chrétien	Soyuz T-6	France	79%
November 28, 1983	Ulf Merbold	STS-9	West Germany	74%
October 5, 1984	Marc Garneau	STS-41-G	Canada	70%
April 3, 1984	Rakesh Sharma	Soyuz T-11	India	69%
June 27, 1978	Mirosław Hermaszewski	Soyuz 30	Poland	66%
November 26, 1985	Rodolfo Neri Vela	STS-61-B	Mexico	59%
June 17, 1985	Sultan al-Saud	STS-51-G	Saudi Arabia	56%
May 14, 1981	Dumitru Prunariu	Soyuz 40	Romania	48%
July 23, 1980	Phạm Tuân	Soyuz 37	Vietnam	42%
April 10, 1979	Georgi Ivanov	Soyuz 33	Bulgaria	41%
August 26, 1978	Sigmund Jähn	Soyuz 31	East Germany	39%
May 26, 1980	Bertalan Farkas	Soyuz 36	Hungary	39%
October 30, 1985	Wubbo Ockels	STS-61-A	Netherlands	36%
March 2, 1978	Vladimír Remek	Soyuz 28	Czechoslovakia	34%
August 29, 1988	Abdul Ahad Mohmand	Soyuz TM-6	Afghanistan	31%
March 22, 1981	Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa	Sayuz 39	Mongolia	23%
September 18, 1980	Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez	Soyuz 38	Cuba	22%
July 22, 1987	Muhammed Faris	Soyuz TM-3	Syria	18%