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Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. What year did this event occur?
1963
1986
1959
1962
1980
Voyager 2 reached Uranus. What year did this event occur?
1963
1986
1959
1962
1980
The first unmanned space probe Luna 2 landed on the Moon. What year did this event occur?
1963
1986
1959
1962
1980
John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. What year did this event occur?
1963
1986
1959
1962
1980
Voyager 1 reached Saturn. What year did this event occur?
1963
1986
1959
1962
1980
What year was the first satellite, Sputnik, launched?
1955
1957
1960
1962
Which probe was sent to study the Sun in 1990?
Voyager 1
Galileo
Ulysses
Cassini
Who were the astronauts involved in the first manned landing on the Moon in 1969?
John Glenn and Alan Shepard
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Michael Collins and John Young
Pete Conrad and Alan Bean
In what year did Voyager 2 reach Saturn?
1979
1981
1983
1985
When did the Challenger Space Shuttle explode?
1984
1986
1988
1990
What year did the Galileo probe explore Jupiter?
1989
1972
1979
1997
In which year was the Pioneer 10 launched to explore asteroids and Jupiter?
1979
1989
1972
1997
When did Voyagers 1 & 2 reach Jupiter?
1972
1989
1979
1997
Which year did the Pathfinder probe explore the Martian surface?
1957
1979
1989
1997
What year did Yuri Gagarin become the first person to orbit Earth?
1958
1961
1965
1970
In which year did the Viking probe land on Mars?
1976
1980
1984
1990
When was Cygnus X-1 confirmed to be a black hole?
1985
1990
1995
2000
Which year did Voyager 2 reach Neptune?
1985
1989
1993
1997
What year was the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) launched?
2010
2014
2018
2022
When was the Magellan space probe launched to Venus?
1985
1989
1993
1997
What year was the Magellan space probe launched to Venus?
1989
1992
1982
1977
In which year did Voyager 1 & 2 start their mission to explore the gas giants?
1977
1989
1992
1967
When were the first color pictures of the surface of Venus transmitted by Venera 13?
1982
1977
1967
1989
Which year marks the launch of the first Saturn V rocket?
1967
1977
1982
1989
What year did the Space Shuttle program operate until?
1998
2011
1999
1989
In what year was the International Space Station first operational?
1981
1998
2015
1989
When did the New Horizons probe reach Pluto?
1998
1989
2015
1999
Which year was the Chandra X-ray Observatory launched?
1989
1998
2011
1999
When was the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) launched?
1981
1998
1999
1989
What year was the Kepler Telescope, designed to discover Earth-size planets, launched?
2003
2009
2012
2021
Which space telescope was launched in the year 2003?
Kepler Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope
Hubble Space Telescope
In what year did the Curiosity Rover land on Mars?
2009
2012
2015
2021
When was the James Webb Space Telescope launched?
2003
2009
2015
2021
The modern age of space exploration began in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched (a) , an artificial satellite.
(a) is NOT a method used by NASA to explore space.
Space telescopes
Manned spaceflights
Deep-sea diving
Robotic spacecraft
Match the following
satellite
space probe
telescope
