92 Rockets And Space Travel Trivia Questions with Answers
92 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What altitude is commonly used as the boundary of space, known as the Kármán line?
Answer
100 kilometers
Which rocket carried SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy test flight in 2018?
Answer
Falcon Heavy
Which rocket carried the first crewed mission of the Space Shuttle program?
Answer
Space Shuttle Columbia
Which spacecraft carried the first person to perform a spacewalk?
Answer
Voskhod 2
Which spacecraft first returned close-up images of Mars?
Answer
Mariner 4
What was the first successful interplanetary mission?
Answer
Mariner 2
What is the name of the equation that relates rocket velocity to changing mass?
Answer
Tsiolkovsky rocket equation
Who became the first human to travel into outer space?
Answer
Yuri Gagarin
Which rocket launched NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1977?
Answer
Titan IIIE-Centaur
What was the name of the first space station placed in orbit?
Answer
Salyut 1
Which spacecraft was the first to orbit Jupiter?
Answer
Galileo
What is the name of the largest volcano in the Solar System, located on Mars?
Answer
Olympus Mons
Which astronaut became the first person to walk on the Moon?
Answer
Neil Armstrong
Which spacecraft made the first flyby of Pluto in 2015?
Answer
New Horizons
Which rocket launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990?
Answer
Space Shuttle Discovery
Which spacecraft made the first close-up study of Saturn and its rings?
Answer
Pioneer 11
Which rocket launched China’s first crewed spaceflight, Shenzhou 5?
Answer
Long March 2F
Which spacecraft returned the first US asteroid samples to Earth?
Answer
OSIRIS-REx
Who was the first woman to command a space mission?
Answer
Eileen Collins
Which mission achieved the first rendezvous between two crewed spacecraft in orbit?
Answer
Gemini 6A and Gemini 7
What was the name of the first spacecraft to land on Titan?
Answer
Huygens
What was the name of Apollo 11’s lunar landing site in 1969?
Answer
Tranquility Base
Which spacecraft first entered orbit around a comet?
Answer
Rosetta
Which NASA spacecraft became the first to orbit Mercury?
Answer
MESSENGER
What was the name of the first reusable orbital spacecraft to land after a spaceflight?
Answer
Space Shuttle Columbia