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What was the primary goal of the Space Race?

• Mining asteroids

• Finding alien life

• Demonstrating technological superiority

• Exploring Mars

Which operation brought German scientists to the US after World War II?

• Operation Barbarossa

• Operation Valkyrie

• Operation Overlord

• Operation Paperclip

(a)   was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.

• Hubble Space Telescope
• Apollo 11
• Sputnik
• Voyager 1

Who was the first human to orbit the Earth?

• John Glenn

• Neil Armstrong

• Alan Shepard

• Yuri Gagarin

What was unique about Valentina Tereshkova's space mission?

• She conducted the first spacewalk

• She piloted the first space shuttle

• She was the first to land on the Moon

• She was the first woman in space

What was the main purpose of Skylab?

• To monitor Earth's climate

• To serve as a launch platform for deep space missions

• To conduct scientific experiments in orbit

• To serve as a military outpost

What was the main challenge faced by the first crew of Skylab?

• Space sickness

• A fire outbreak

• Alien encounter

• Repairing the station

What was the primary function of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project?

• To dock American and Soviet spacecraft in orbit

• To launch a joint space station

• To test new rocket engines

• To explore the Moon together

Which space station was the first to host international astronauts?

• ISS

• Mir

• Salyut

• Skylab

What was the first reusable spacecraft?

• Space Shuttle

• Apollo

• Soyuz

• Vostok