FIRST (far-infrared and submillimeter space telescope): a major scientific project of ESA

First 226Ra 210Pb dating of a young speleothem

First archeointensity results from Portuguese potteries (1550-1750 AD)

First Assessment of Radiation Effects on a Biochip Dedicated to Life Detection - Study of a Mission to Mars Case -

First basin-wide experimental results on N2 fixation in the open Mediterranean Sea

First Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. I. (Polatidis+ 1995)

First Caltech-Jodrell Bank VLBI Survey. III (Xu+ 1995)

First characterization of Jbel Aklim in Moroccan Anti-Atlas as a potential site for the E-ELT

First coincidences between extensive air showers and underground muons at the Gran Sasso Laboratory.

First Constraints on the Composition of Tharsis Volcanism, Mars

First CRISM Observations of Mars

First DENIS I-band extragalactic catalog (Vauglin+ 1999)

First detection of Bromine Monoxide in a volcanic plume using MAX-DOAS measurements

First detection of meso-thermospheric Nitric Oxide (NO) by ground-based FTIR solar absorption spectroscopy

First direct measurement of the astrophysically important fluorine-17 (p,gamma)neon-18 cross section

First epoch geodetic GPS measurements across the Afar plate boundary zone

First evidence for the detection of natural surface films by the QuikSCAT scatterometer

First Galileo Views of Europa

First Giant Mirror for the ESO VLT Ready at REOSC

First GRB detections with the AGILE Minicalorimeter