How Far Have We Traveled in Space?

The video discusses the Apollo 13 mission, highlighting its challenges and the crew's safe return using the Moon's gravity. It also covers the New Horizons mission, which carried Clyde Tombaugh's ashes to Pluto, and Voyager 1, the farthest man-made object in space. Despite these achievements, humans have not traveled beyond the Moon since Apollo 13.

What was the primary objective of the Apollo 13 mission before it was altered?

• To explore the Fermaro Formation on the Moon

• To orbit Mars

• To study the Sun's corona

• To land on Venus

How did the Apollo 13 crew manage to return to Earth safely?

• By using the Moon's gravity as a slingshot

• By landing on Mars

• By docking with the International Space Station

• By using solar sails

Whose ashes were carried by the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto?

• Albert Einstein

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Clyde William Tombaugh

What is the most distant man-made object in space?

• Voyager 1

• Mars Rover

• Hubble Space Telescope

• International Space Station

How many scientific instruments on Voyager 1 remain active?

• None

• Four instruments

• Seven instruments

• All 11 instruments