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The Viking Lander was the first spacecraft to operate on the surface of mars. They found life there, as attested to by this photo of a martian.

The Pershing II and SS-20 Missiles were the first nuclear weapons eliminated under the first International Treaty to control nuclear arms. The United State's Pershing II weighted in at 50,000 tons of TNT blasting power, Russia's SS-20 was 5 times that amount, tipping the scales at 250,000 tons of TNT. Yikes!

Destroyed missle fragments.

In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones were the first folks to float around the world non-stop by balloon in their Breitling Orbiter 3 Gondola. The trip took 19 days, 21 hours, and 55 minutes to complete and covered 28,431 miles.