95 Space Exploration Trivia Questions with Answers
95 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which NASA mission first flew a spacecraft past the dwarf planet Pluto in 2015?
Answer
New Horizons
Who became the first woman to perform a spacewalk during the Soviet Salyut 7 mission in 1984?
Answer
Svetlana Savitskaya
Which spacecraft made the first flyby of Neptune in 1989?
Answer
Voyager 2
Which spacecraft became the first to orbit an asteroid when it reached 433 Eros in 2000?
Answer
NEAR Shoemaker
Which spacecraft became the first to orbit Mercury in 2011?
Answer
MESSENGER
Which mission was the first to use a sky crane to land a rover on Mars?
Answer
Mars Science Laboratory
Which spacecraft performed the first flyby of Pluto in 2015?
Answer
New Horizons
What was the first space station launched into orbit?
Answer
Salyut 1
Who was the first woman to travel into space?
Answer
Valentina Tereshkova
Which NASA space telescope was launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery in April 1990?
Answer
Hubble Space Telescope