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Space Exploration Events

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. What year did this event occur?

a)

1963

b)

1986

c)

1959

d)

1962

e)

1980

2.

Voyager 2 reached Uranus. What year did this event occur?

a)

1963

b)

1986

c)

1959

d)

1962

e)

1980

3.

The first unmanned space probe Luna 2 landed on the Moon. What year did this event occur?

a)

1963

b)

1986

c)

1959

d)

1962

e)

1980

4.

John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. What year did this event occur?

a)

1963

b)

1986

c)

1959

d)

1962

e)

1980

5.

Voyager 1 reached Saturn. What year did this event occur?

a)

1963

b)

1986

c)

1959

d)

1962

e)

1980

6.

What year was the first satellite, Sputnik, launched?

a)

1955

b)

1957

c)

1960

d)

1962

7.

Which probe was sent to study the Sun in 1990?

a)

Voyager 1

b)

Galileo

c)

Ulysses

d)

Cassini

8.

Who were the astronauts involved in the first manned landing on the Moon in 1969?

a)

John Glenn and Alan Shepard

b)

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin

c)

Michael Collins and John Young

d)

Pete Conrad and Alan Bean

9.

In what year did Voyager 2 reach Saturn?

a)

1979

b)

1981

c)

1983

d)

1985

10.

When did the Challenger Space Shuttle explode?

a)

1984

b)

1986

c)

1988

d)

1990

11.

What year did the Galileo probe explore Jupiter?

a)

1989

b)

1972

c)

1979

d)

1997

12.

In which year was the Pioneer 10 launched to explore asteroids and Jupiter?

a)

1979

b)

1989

c)

1972

d)

1997

13.

When did Voyagers 1 & 2 reach Jupiter?

a)

1972

b)

1989

c)

1979

d)

1997

14.

Which year did the Pathfinder probe explore the Martian surface?

a)

1957

b)

1979

c)

1989

d)

1997

15.

What year did Yuri Gagarin become the first person to orbit Earth?

a)

1958

b)

1961

c)

1965

d)

1970

16.

In which year did the Viking probe land on Mars?

a)

1976

b)

1980

c)

1984

d)

1990

17.

When was Cygnus X-1 confirmed to be a black hole?

a)

1985

b)

1990

c)

1995

d)

2000

18.

Which year did Voyager 2 reach Neptune?

a)

1985

b)

1989

c)

1993

d)

1997

19.

What year was the TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) launched?

a)

2010

b)

2014

c)

2018

d)

2022

20.

When was the Magellan space probe launched to Venus?

a)

1985

b)

1989

c)

1993

d)

1997

21.

What year was the Magellan space probe launched to Venus?

a)

1989

b)

1992

c)

1982

d)

1977

22.

In which year did Voyager 1 & 2 start their mission to explore the gas giants?

a)

1977

b)

1989

c)

1992

d)

1967

23.

When were the first color pictures of the surface of Venus transmitted by Venera 13?

a)

1982

b)

1977

c)

1967

d)

1989

24.

Which year marks the launch of the first Saturn V rocket?

a)

1967

b)

1977

c)

1982

d)

1989

25.

What year did the Space Shuttle program operate until?

a)

1998

b)

2011

c)

1999

d)

1989

26.

In what year was the International Space Station first operational?

a)

1981

b)

1998

c)

2015

d)

1989

27.

When did the New Horizons probe reach Pluto?

a)

1998

b)

1989

c)

2015

d)

1999

28.

Which year was the Chandra X-ray Observatory launched?

a)

1989

b)

1998

c)

2011

d)

1999

29.

When was the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) launched?

a)

1981

b)

1998

c)

1999

d)

1989

30.

What year was the Kepler Telescope, designed to discover Earth-size planets, launched?

a)

2003

b)

2009

c)

2012

d)

2021

31.

Which space telescope was launched in the year 2003?

a)

Kepler Telescope

b)

Spitzer Space Telescope

c)

James Webb Space Telescope

d)

Hubble Space Telescope

32.

In what year did the Curiosity Rover land on Mars?

a)

2009

b)

2012

c)

2015

d)

2021

33.

When was the James Webb Space Telescope launched?

a)

2003

b)

2009

c)

2015

d)

2021

34.

​ The modern age of space exploration began in 1957, when the Soviet Union launched ​ (a)   , an artificial satellite. ​

Choose from the below words
Sputnik I
Apollo 11
Hubble Telescope
35.

(a)   is NOT a method used by NASA to explore space.

Choose from the below words

Space telescopes

Manned spaceflights

Deep-sea diving

Robotic spacecraft

36.

Match the following

a)

1.

satellite

b)

2.

space probe

c)

3.

telescope