Astronauts
Which astronaut exclaimed; "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" upon being the first human to step foot on the moon
Neil Armstrong
In what American city is the NASA spaceflight command headquarters located?
Houston, Texas
What is the closest planet (on average) to Earth
Mercury (Venus can come closer, but not on average distance)
Which country won the space race by putting the first man on the moon?
USA
Which Sesame Street character almost died in a space shuttle explosion?
Big Bird - Challenger
What was the name of the first maned mission to the moon?
Apollo 11
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Jupiter
What two countries participated in the space race?
USA and the USSR (Soviet Union)
Dog
In 2012, what spacecraft became the first human object to exit the solar system?
Voyager I
The star Proxima Centuri is notable for which feature?
The closest star to the Solar System (excluduing the Sun)
What is the name of the space station kept in low orbit and operated through a collaboration by the international space community?
The ISS (International Space Station)
With the current Artemis II mission, who is the first woman to have travelled to the moon?
Christina Koch
What mission is known as the most catastrophic spacetravel disaster in histrory?
The Challenger Explosion
The planet Kepler-452b is remarkable for what feature
most habitable planet outside of our solar system
Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space with the Vostok 1 mission launched by the USSR in what year?
1961
Luis Carrero Blanco, heir to Francisco Franco's dictatorship, jokingly became what country's "first astronaut after he was assassinated, blasting his car over 5 stories into the air
Spain
In 1965, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 became the first to land on another planet. What planet was this?
Venus
List as many planets and moons named after Greek or Roman mythological figures as you can - whoever names the most wins the points
Mercury, Venus, Tellus - Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Io, Ganymede, Europa, Callisto, Phobos, Deimos, Rhea, Phoebe, Triton, Proteus, Thebe, Titan, Calypso,
Mir, the first consistently inhabited long-term research space station was launched by the USSR in what year?
1990