Whodunit?
This astronaut became the first person to walk on the moon after disembarking from the Apollo 11 in 1969.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This was the first astronomical observatory to be placed into orbit around Earth after launching on April 24, 1990.
What is the Hubble telescope?
Giotto was the first spacecraft to make close-up observations of this famous comet in 1986.
What is Halley’s Comet?
These spacecraft are semi-autonomous and were designed specifically to explore Mars.
What are rovers?
Ingenuity was launched on July 30, 2020 as an experimental scout on this planet.
What is Mars?
This was the first mammal to orbit the Earth aboard the Sputnik 2 in 1957.
Who is Laika the dog?
These were the first spacecraft to visit Jupiter after their launch in March of 1972.
What are Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11?
Galileo discovered that this satellite of Jupiter is the first moon known to possess a magnetic field.
What is Ganymede?
These spacecraft are designed to enter a distant planet’s orbit and can adapt to both solar and Earth occultations.
What is orbiter spacecraft?
Ranger 8 was a probe launched in the 1960s on a mission to obtain close-up images of this satellite's surface.
What is the Earth's Moon?
This was the first person in space aboard the Vostok 1 in 1961.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This spacecraft is scheduled to launch four astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station on October 31, 2021.
What is the Crew Dragon?
Luna 3 was the first to provide images of this region not visible from Earth in 1959.
What is the far side of the moon?
These spacecraft occupy an Earth or solar orbit and observe distant targets free of the obscuring and blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere.
What are observatory spacecraft?
Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977 to explore these planets before leaving the heliosphere and crossing into interstellar space in December 2018.
What are the gas giants?
This Russian cosmonaut was the first woman in space aboard the Vostok-6 in 1963.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
This spacecraft launched in 2018 has since broken two major records: Fastest human-made object (330,000 mph or 532,000 km/h) and closest spacecraft to the sun (6.5 million miles or 10.4 million kilometers).
What is the Parker Solar Probe?
Juno discovered this compound in Jupiter’s atmosphere while close to the equator in 2017.
What is water?
These spacecraft are designed for relatively short missions to collect data about the conditions of a planet or satellite.
What is atmospheric spacecraft?
Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3, 1973, and was the first spacecraft to perform flybys of multiple planets, specifically these two planets.
What are Mercury and Venus?
This American multimillionaire who traveled aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2001 is considered the first space tourist.
Who is Dennis Tito?
This was the first space shuttle to launch on April 12, 1981.
What is Columbia (STS-1)?
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this comet traveling low in the sun’s atmosphere in December 2011.
What is Comet C/2011 W3 Lovejoy?
These spacecraft conduct the initial reconnaissance phase of solar system exploration, follow a continuous solar orbit or escape trajectory, and use their optical instruments to observe targets they pass.
What are flyby spacecraft?
Dragonfly is a planned spacecraft and NASA mission which will send a robotic rotorcraft to this planet's moon with the intention of studying prebiotic chemistry and extraterrestrial habitability.
What is Jupiter?