92 Rockets And Space Travel Trivia Questions with Answers
92 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
On what date did Sputnik 1 become the first artificial satellite?
Answer
October 4, 1957
Who launched the first successful liquid-fueled rocket?
Answer
Robert H. Goddard
Which vehicle became the first rover to operate on Mars?
Answer
Sojourner
Which spacecraft first flew past Uranus?
Answer
Voyager 2
Which astronaut became the first woman to perform a spacewalk?
Answer
Svetlana Savitskaya
Which Apollo mission completed the first crewed lunar landing?
Answer
Apollo 11
Who formulated the rocket equation that relates a rocket’s speed to its propellant?
Answer
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Which rocket made its first flight in 2018 carrying Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster?
Answer
Falcon Heavy
Which spacecraft became the first to land on an asteroid, touching down on Eros in 2001?
Answer
NEAR Shoemaker
How tall was the Saturn V rocket used for Apollo Moon missions?
Answer
110.6 metres
Who proposed the orbital transfer method now called a Hohmann transfer orbit?
Answer
Walter Hohmann
What is Earth’s approximate escape velocity at its surface?
Answer
11.2 km/s
Which space telescope launched in 1990 and was named after an American astronomer?
Answer
Hubble Space Telescope
Which rocket carried the first American astronaut into space in 1961?
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Redstone rocket
Which spacecraft was the first to fly past Pluto?
Answer
New Horizons
Which rocket launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, into orbit?
Answer
Sputnik 8K71PS
What is the name of the reusable NASA spacecraft that first flew in 1981?
Answer
Space Shuttle Columbia