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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
What are the two moons of Mars?
Ganymede and Callisto
Titania and Miranda
Triton and Proteus
Phobos and Deimos
What is the largest star in the universe?
UY Scuti
Stephenson 2-18
AH Scorpii
S persei
This person is a Soviet Russian cosmonaut and he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk.
Alexi Leonov
Pavel Belyayev
Gherman Titov
Vladmir Komorov
This space probe was launched by NASA on April 6,1973 to study the asteroid belt and the environment around Jupiter and Saturn. It was the first probe to encounter Saturn. Name this probe?
Pioneer 10
Voyager 1
Pioneer 11
Voyager 2
This Project was the first passive communication satellite experiment and it was launched in 1960 by NASA. Name this project.
Echo
Telstar 1
PAGEOS
Explorer
Which Belgian Priest-Astronomer proposed the Big Bang Theory in 1920's?
George Gamow
Mayim Bialik
Fred Hoyle
Georgas Lemaitre
First photo of a Black hole was taken in 2019. Name the telescope network used for this.
Event Horizon telescope
CAIDA telescope
Skynet telescope
UCSD telescope
What is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?
Ceres
Haumea
Makemake
Eris
For discovering what, Antony Hewish received the Nobel prize in 1974?
Quasar
Magnater
Pulsar
Blazar
The three crew members of Soyuz 11 are the first humans known to have died in space. Two of them were Georgy Dobrovolsky and Vladislav Volkov. Who is the other one?
Alexi Leonov
Sharon Christa
Viktor Patsayev
Pavel Popovich
In which city the headquarters of International Astronomical Union Located?
Paris
New York
Shanghai
Moscow
What is the brightest star in the Leo constellation?
Regulus
Zeta Leonis
Theta Leonis
Denebola
Which American Physicist discovered the Cosmoic Microwave Background
radiation, which helped to establish the Big Bang Theory of cosmology.
Richard Feynman
James Cronin
Arno Penzias
Hans Bethe
Which Russian cosmonaut holds the world record for the most time spent in space at 879 days?
Gennady Padalka
Sergei Avdeyev
Valeri Polyakov
Sergei Krikalev
This woman became the first American woman in space and Also she remains as the youngest American astronaut to have travelled to space, having done so at the age of 32.Name her.
Judith Resnik
Sally Ride
Kathryn Sullivan
Christa McAuliffe
Who is considered as the “Father of observational Astronomy"?
Galileo Galilei
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
William Herschel
”Mars Polar Lander” was a spacecraft launched by NASA to study the soil and the climate of the” Planum Australe” a region near the south pole on Mars. In which year did this spacecraft launched?
1996
2000
1999
1998
Who is the first Afro-American and also the second person of African descent to go to space?
James Buchii
Dale Gardner
Bonnie Dunbar
Guion Bluford
He was an American-German engineer and also he was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany. Then he worked as the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket in 1967.Name him.
Herman Oberth
Werner von Braun
Luise von Quistorp
Robert Goddard
This Soviet space probe was the first probe to land on Venus and it became the first space probe to soft land on another planet.What was it?
Mariner 2
Mariner 1
Venera 7
Venera 1
This Canyon is the largest canyon on Mars, and also it is considered as the largest canyon in our Solar system.
The Grand Canyon
Valles Marineris
San Marina
Yarlung Zanbo
Which famous Italian-American Nobel laureate is considered as the “Father of X ray Astronomy”?
Riccardo Giacconi
Enrico Fermi
Carlo Rovelli
Guglielmo Marconi
This was a class of reusable cargo spacecraft developed by Space X and it was launched into orbit by the company’s famous Falcon 9 launch vehicle to resupply the ISS. What is this Spacecraft.
Dragon 1
Challenger
Endeavour
Atlantis
This space station is known as the ‘Hotel in Orbit’. It helds the record for the longest continuous human presence in space until 2010.
Salyut 1
Mir
Skylab
Salyut 3
Who is considered as the oldest person to go to space?
Peggy Whitson
Alan Shepard
Frank Borman
John Glenn
