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Left on the moon
200
In 1966 Venera 3 became the first space probe to reach another planet when it crash-landed here
Venus
200
When ex-president Trump signed the covid relief bill into force, a sneaky bit of legislation stated that the pentagon had to release all evidence of these by June 2021.
UFO's
200
The Space Age began in 1957 when Russia launched this satellite
Sputnik
200
The title of this 2019 Brad Pitt space movie translates as "to the stars"
Ad Astra
200
Courtesy of Neil Armstrong, this upright item of national pride
US Flag
400
The third country ever to launch a planetary mission, this nation launched the Nozomi probe to Mars in 1998
Japan
400
This edition of SpaceX's Starship program was the first to land successfully after taking off.
SN15 / Starship 15
400
This canine constellation has the brightest star in the night sky (2). Name the star and constellation
Sirius and Canis Major
400
Netflix beat out the U.S. government to trademark this Steve Carell show's military title in Europe, Australia & Mexico
Space Force
400
A gold replica of one of these natural symbols of peace
an olive branch
600
NASA's Juno spacecraft in 2019 solved the mystery of lightning seen on this planet
Jupiter
600
The landing of this Chinese rover on the surface of Mars may trigger a new spending war by Nasa
Zhurong
600
There was room for two men--Frank Borman and James Lovell in the capsule used for their 2-week-long 1965 orbital mission in this program
Gemini
600
Instead of a conventional test payload, Falcon Heavy's first launch carried a Tesla roadster, piloted by a mannequin named this, the title of a David Bowie song about an extraterrestrial who's waiting in the sky
Starman
600
What if the Soviets got to the Moon First?" is the premise of Apple TV+' show "For All Mankind", a title from a plaque left by this mission
Apollo 11
800
This giant rocket that carried the Apollo missions into space stood taller than the Statue of Liberty & weighed more than 6 million pounds; the ring-shaped unit that contained the guidance system was 22' in diameter all by itself 
Saturn V
800
This was the first successful completion of the first powered controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet besides Earth. It was carried to Mars by Perseverance and took flight on April 19, 2021.Name the aircraft.
Ingenuity
800
In 1960 NASA made this German-born man the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center
Wernher Von Braun
800
In a 2012 "Alien" film, the title ship is named for this mythical titan who gave fire to mankind
Prometheus
800
Thanks to Alan Shepard, 2 of these small sports items
Golf Balls
1000
In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space & flew three times faster than anyone else had in a capsule called this, or East
Vostok
1000
Until 2016 this was the largest single-aperture telescope. In December of 2020 the main telescope collapsed before it was supposed to be decommissioned.
Arecibo Observatory
1000
These records were carried by these two spacecraft in 1977
The Voyager mission
1000
Slaughtering demons in outer space was the goal when this "fateful" 1st-person shooter came out in 1993; by 2020, it was "Eternal"
Doom
1000
A feather & a hammer dropped by an astronaut in 1971, confirming a theory of this man, four centuries before
Galileo