Space Exploration Quiz
Questions
- What was the name of the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon?
- Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin were the first of how many men to walk on the Moon?
- In 1973 the first American space station was launched - what was it called?
- On March 18, 1965, cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov became the first person to do what?
- Who was the first woman in space?
- What was the name of the American space program which was the first to take soil samples from the surface of Mars?
- What was the name of the Russian space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001?
- Can you name the last man to walk on the moon?
- Who was the first human to orbit Earth?
- Which British astronaut became the first British person in space?
- Can you name the most distant man-made object in space?
- Who was the first American to travel into space?
- Name the European Space Agency mission that became the first spacecraft to make close up observations of Halley's Comet in 1986?
- Which country made the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon?
- Named after the first American ship to circumnavigate the upper North American Pacific coast, what was the name of the first Space Shuttle?
- In 1983 who became the first American woman in space?
- Which space telescope was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and still remains in operation?
- Who was the commander of the aborted Apollo 13 mission?
- Which space telescope was launched by NASA in 2009 to discover Earth-size planets orbiting other stars? (Hint: it was named after a key figure in 17th-century astronomy)
- What name was given to NASA's second human spaceflight programme? It was conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo.
Answers
- Apollo 11
- 12
- Skylab (the Soviet Union's Salyut 1 was the world's first space station)
- Walk in space
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Viking
- Mir
- Eugene Cernan
- Yuri Gagarin
- Helen Sharman
- Voyager I (as of November 2021 it is nearly 14.5 billion miles from Earth)
- Alan Shepard
- Giotto
- China (2019)
- Columbia
- Sally Ride
- The Hubble Space Telescope
- Jim Lovell
- The Kepler space telescope
- Project Gemini
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