Astronauts Quiz

Which space station was the first to be launched into orbit?

• Mir

• Skylab

• International Space Station (ISS)

• Salyut 1

What is the primary purpose of the International Space Station (ISS)?

• Military operations

• Space tourism

• Scientific research and international cooperation

• Mining asteroids

Which space mission was the first to land humans on the Moon?

• Apollo 11

• Apollo 13

• Gemini 4

• Mercury-Atlas 6

Who was the first British astronaut to go to space?

• Helen Sharman

• Tim Peake

• Michael Foale

• Piers Sellers

Which space station was operated by the Soviet Union and later Russia, and was in orbit from 1986 to 2001?

• Skylab

• Mir

• Salyut 7

• Tiangong

What was the name of the rover that landed on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission in 2012?

• Spirit

• Opportunity

• Curiosity

• Perseverance

Which space mission was the first to fly by Pluto?

• Voyager 1

• New Horizons

• Pioneer 10

• Cassini-Huygens

What is the name of the European Space Agency's (ESA) space station module that is part of the ISS?

• Columbus

• Harmony

• Destiny

• Kibo

Which space mission was the first to send a spacecraft to orbit and study Jupiter?

• Galileo

• Juno

• Voyager 2

• Cassini

Who was the first person to walk in space?

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Alexei Leonov

• Buzz Aldrin