Questions
- Which spacecraft was the first to land humans on the Moon during the Apollo program?
- What was the name of the rover that NASA sent to Mars in 2012 to explore Gale Crater?
- Which space agency launched the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990?
- What was the primary goal of the Voyager 1 mission launched in 1977?
- Which spacecraft was the first to reach the surface of a comet, and what was the comet’s name?
- In which year did the International Space Station (ISS) first become operational?
- What was the name of the Mars helicopter that made the first powered flight on another planet?
- Which mission was the first to successfully land a spacecraft on Venus, returning data about its surface?
- What is the name of the space telescope that replaced the Hubble and is designed to observe the universe in infrared wavelengths?
- Which mission was responsible for studying the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres?
Answers:
- Apollo 11
- Curiosity Rover
- NASA
- To study the outer planets and gather data about the outer reaches of the solar system
- Rosetta spacecraft; comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
- 2000
- Ingenuity Helicopter
- Venera 13 (Soviet Union)
- James Webb Space Telescope
- Dawn Mission