Ruridova wrote:Unicario wrote:
Yuri Gagarin, Neil Armstrong and Ranko Yamato, the first people on the moon, in 1969.
No. Yuri Gagarin is first in space, Gherman Titov the first to spend more than 24 hours(for Russia at least), Aleksey Leonov is first for extravehicular activity(for Russia at least), Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman. Sputnik is the first satellite; Laika is the first animal; Belka and Strelka the first animals to return. The Russian sent to the moon for the CS-Russia-Japan would be Svetlana Savitskaya. Neil Armstrong will be the first to set foot on lunar soil.
This brings up a question: would all the lunar landing missions be joint missions, or just the first? Would latter missions be run by individual countries?
Japan would send it's first cosmonaut into space in the early 1960s, and Japan would choose a woman, who were the most numerous in Indonesian War-era reserve pilots (Women have been allowed to join Japanese armed forces since the 1830s, and this was later confirmed as sovereign law in 1936 when women joined citizen militias against the Tojoists) -- that's the problem though, you are entitled to the "first woman in space" but Japan's male astronauts wouldn't really start up until 1968, due to the Indonesian War's necessities for mostly men to go off and die for freedom, leaving the majority of the "space-faring" population to be people with ovaries. All Japanese astronauts/cosmonauts from first launch in 1961 (after Gagarin but before Shepard) to Apollo 11 were women. After the end of the Indonesian War and the "re-adjustment" from 1967 to 1970, Japanese males, specifically, veterans of the Air Force, began to join the ranks of the cosmonauts.
Yuri Gagarin: Entered space on April 12, 1961
Hoshi Matsuri: Entered space on May 1, 1961
Alan Shepard: Entered space on May 5, 1961
(Shepard and Matsuri would go on to be the first cosmonauts to participate in the Pearl Harbor Program, a joint Confederate-Japanese space exploration program, which was piloted primarily for the Mercury and Apollo program, to reap the scientific rewards of two nations cooperating to reach the stars. Piloted under the leadership of Kim Il-sung and John F. Kennedy. The program experienced delays due to war between 1963 and 1967 as the CSA and Japan waged an all-out war against Indonesia, however, the program remained on track as funding remained flowing into the program, leading to the Apollo launches between 1968 and 1969 -- culminating in the Russo-Confederate-Japanese lunar landing in July 1969 where Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon, followed behind by Ranko Yamato, daughter of Emperor Alexander II, and sister of Empress Akane, and the Russian guy.)
As for the lunar missions, I imagine all missions up to Apollo 11 are "joint", then Russia drops out and Japan and the CSA are launching both independent and joint missions well into the 1970s and 1980s. Japan would be aiming primarily at getting the technology for lunar landings squared away as so to make that an easy feat of science, before trying manned landings on Mars by 2020.
