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15 Space Exploration Trivia Questions and Answers

How much do you know about the world outside of our atmosphere? Try your hand at these space exploration trivia questions and find out.

15 Space Exploration Trivia Questions

  1. Q: Who was the first human to travel into space?
  2. Q: What year did the Apollo 11 mission land the first humans on the Moon?
  3. Q: Which space shuttle was the first to be launched into space?
  4. Q: What is the name of NASA’s Mars rover that landed in February 2021?
  5. Q: Who is the first woman to have flown in space?
  6. Q: What celestial body did the spacecraft Voyager 2 visit last during its grand tour?
  7. Q: Which planet has been visited by the most robotic spacecraft?
  8. Q: What is the name of the telescope that was launched into space in 1990 to provide views of space at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths?
  9. Q: What is the name of the first satellite sent into space?
  10. Q: Who was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth?
  11. Q: Which space agency successfully landed the Chang’e 4 mission on the far side of the Moon?
  12. Q: What is the term for the boundary around a black hole beyond which no light or other radiation can escape?
  13. Q: Who was the first private citizen to fund their trip to the International Space Station (ISS)?
  14. Q: What astronomical event is marked by the passage of the Sun directly over the Earth’s equator, occurring twice a year?
  15. Q: What was the name of the first dog in space, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?

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15 Space Exploration Trivia Questions and Answers

  1. Q: Who was the first human to travel into space?
    A: Yuri Gagarin.
  2. Q: What year did the Apollo 11 mission land the first humans on the Moon?
    A: 1969.
  3. Q: Which space shuttle was the first to be launched into space?
    A: Columbia in 1981.
  4. Q: What is the name of NASA’s Mars rover that landed in February 2021?
    A: Perseverance.
  5. Q: Who is the first woman to have flown in space?
    A: Valentina Tereshkova.
  6. Q: What celestial body did the spacecraft Voyager 2 visit last during its grand tour?
    A: Neptune.
  7. Q: Which planet has been visited by the most robotic spacecraft?
    A: Mars.
  8. Q: What is the name of the telescope that was launched into space in 1990 to provide views of space at optical, ultraviolet, and near-infrared wavelengths?
    A: The Hubble Space Telescope.
  9. Q: What is the name of the first satellite sent into space?
    A: Sputnik 1.
  10. Q: Who was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth?
    A: John Glenn.
  11. Q: Which space agency successfully landed the Chang’e 4 mission on the far side of the Moon?
    A: The China National Space Administration (CNSA).
  12. Q: What is the term for the boundary around a black hole beyond which no light or other radiation can escape?
    A: The event horizon.
  13. Q: Who was the first private citizen to fund their trip to the International Space Station (ISS)?
    A: Dennis Tito in 2001.
  14. Q: What astronomical event is marked by the passage of the Sun directly over the Earth’s equator, occurring twice a year?
    A: Equinox.
  15. Q: What was the name of the first dog in space, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?
    A: Laika.

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