Welcome to our Space Quiz Questions
Space Quiz I
- Who was the third astronaut on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
- What astronomical phenomenon is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry?
- The Hubble telescope photographed 'Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9' crash into which planet in 1994?
- Who was the commander of the Apollo 13 mission?
- Name the first woman to have flown in space? And who was the first American female in space?
- What nationality was the first man to visit space who wasn't from the the Soviet Union or United States?
- As as of 2017, name the last man to have walked on the moon's surface?
- Give the unit of length that is roughly the distance from Earth to the Sun? And what is its value to the nearest million miles?
- In 1971, which space probe was the first to orbit another planet? And which planet did it orbit?
- What was Cape Canaveral previously known as from 1963 to 1973?
- Which visible comet came within 122 million miles of Earth in 1997?
- Name the second largest body in the asteroid belt - it's named after the virgin goddess of home and hearth in Roman mythology?
Answers:
- Michael Collins
- Halley's Comet
- Jupiter
- Jim Lovell
- Valentina Tereshkova. Sally Ride.
- Czech
- Eugene Cernan
- Astronomical unit. 93 million miles.
- Mariner 9. Mars.
- Cape Kennedy
- Hale-Bopp
- Vesta
Space Quiz II
- Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite in space, was launched in 1957 from which modern day country? And what is the literal meaning of the word 'sputnik'?
- Earth is located in which galaxy?
- Who was the first man to journey into outer space? And can you name the spacecraft and year?
- What does the acronym NASA stand for? And what does the Paris based organisation ESA stand for?
- What's the name given to the explosive death of a massive star whose expanding gases and energy output causes a bright glow for weeks or months?
- Launched by the Soviet Union in 1971, can you name the first ever space station?
- Derived by a 17th century German astronomer, what are the three laws that describe planetary motion called?
- The asteroid belt is betweeen which two planets? And can you name the largest object in this belt?
- Which space probe in 1990 gave us the first photograph of the whole Solar System, known as the Family Potrait?
- Can you name the Russian dog that became first animal to orbit the Earth in 1957?
- Believed to be powered by a supermassive black hole, what name is given to the brightest type of active galactic nucleus?
- What is the colloquial name for the visible path of a meteoroid as it enters the earth's atmosphere?
- Which dwarf planet was the first Kuiper belt object to be discovered in 1930? And which astronmer made the discovery?
- What is the suitably named largest moon of Saturn? And name the two moons of mars named after the characters for fear and dread in Greek mythology?
Answers:
- Kazakhstan. Fellow traveller.
- The Milky Way
- Yuri Gagarin. Vostok, 1961.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration. European Space Agency.
- Supernova
- Salyut 1
- Kepler's laws
- Mars and Jupiter. Ceres.
- Voyager 1 (launched by NASA in 1977)
- Laika
- Quasar
- Shooting star (or falling star)
- Pluto. Clyde Tombaugh.
- Titan. Phobos and Deimos.
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