Space Trivia

Question 1

Sputnik 1

Answer 1

October 4, 1957
Launched by Soviet Union
First artificial satellite

Question 2

Sputnik 2

Answer 2

November 3, 1957
Launched by soviet union
Carried the dog laika
First living being to be shot into space

Question 3

Explorer 1

Answer 3

January 31, 1958
Launched by the United States

Question 4

Vostok 1

Answer 4

Launched by soviet union
April 12, 1961
Carried Yuri Gagarin
First human orbital spaceflight

Question 5

Apollo 11

Answer 5

Launched by the united states
Carried humans to the moon for the first time
July 16, 1969
Carried Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon
The place he walked is called Sea of tranquility

Question 6

First man in space

Answer 6

Yuri Gagarin , Vostok 1, April 12, 1961

Question 7

First woman in space

Answer 7

Vostok 6, June 16, 1963
Valentina Tereshkova

Question 8

First person to do a space walk

Answer 8

Alexei Leonov, March 18, 1965

Question 9

First woman to do a space walk

Answer 9

Svetlana Savitskaya, July 25, 1984

Question 10

First American in space

Answer 10

Alan Shepherd, Freedom 7, May 5, 1961

Question 11

First journalist in space

Answer 11

Akiyama Toyohiro

Question 12

First tourist in space

Answer 12

Dennis Tito
2001
Paid 20 million dollars to go to the ISS

Question 13

First female tourist in space

Answer 13

Anousheh Ansari
2006

Question 14

Longest to stay in space

Answer 14

Valeri Polyakov
437 days 1994 to 1995

Question 15

Viking 1

Answer 15

First space craft to successfully land in mars
Part of a two part mission
Launched in 1975
Successfully performed a martian soil sample

Question 16

Hubble Telescope

Answer 16

Launched in 1990 by NASA and European Space Agency

Question 17

James Webb Telescope

Answer 17

Launched on December 25, 2021