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Which Apollo mission was aborted after an oxygen-tank explosion but still returned its crew safely?

Answer

Apollo 13

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Which astronaut was the first person to fly in space twice?

Answer

Gus Grissom

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Which Apollo mission was the first to carry a television camera to the lunar surface?

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Apollo 11

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Who became the first person to spend more than a day in space during Vostok 2?

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Gherman Titov

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Which Soviet spacecraft photographed the Moon’s far side for the first time in 1959?

Answer

Luna 3

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Which Apollo spacecraft carried astronauts from lunar orbit back to Earth after the first Moon landing?

Answer

Columbia

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Who was the Soviet chief designer widely regarded as the chief architect of the early Soviet space program?

Answer

Sergei Korolev

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Which astronaut commanded Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to land on the Moon?

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Charles Conrad

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Which Soviet spacecraft first returned samples from the Moon to Earth without carrying astronauts?

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Luna 16

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Which mission performed the first docking between two spacecraft in orbit in March 1966?

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Gemini 8

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Which Soviet space station became the first space station when it launched in 1971?

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Salyut 1

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Which satellite became the United States’ first artificial satellite when it launched in January 1958?

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Explorer 1

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