Astronomers and Astronauts
Who was the first person to set foot on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
Which galaxy is closest to our own Milky Way?
Andromeda
What was the first satellite successfully launched into orbit?
Sputnik 1
What is the closest planet to the Sun?
Mercury
What internationally collaborative initiative in Low Earth Orbit is scheduled to deorbit into the Pacific by 2031?
ISS
Which scientist proposed the heliocentric model, placing the Sun at the centre of the Solar System? a) Galileo Galilei
b) Johannes Kepler
c) Nicolaus Copernicus
d) Isaac Newton
Nicolaus Copernicus
What is the closest star system to the Sun?
a) Barnard's Star
b) Alpha Centauri
c) Altair
d) Betelgeuse
Alpha Centauri
Which Apollo mission experienced a technical failure en route to the Moon and was unable to land, inspiring a movie of the same name starring Tom Hanks?
Apollo 13
Which planet has the hottest surface temperature?
Venus
What is the name of the asteroid sample retrieval mission (that Canada contributed the laser altimeter to) that returned a sample to Earth last year?
OSIRIS-REx
Name a current Canadian astronaut
Jeremy Hansen
Josh Kutryk
Jenni Sidey-Gibbons
David St-Jacques
A pulsar is a:
a) Rapidly rotating neutron star
b) Type of supernova
c) Young, hot star
d) Black hole's event horizon
Rapidly rotating neutron star
The name of the first living creature sent into space, aboard Sputnik 2.
Laika
Name one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter (there are four - the largest ones!)
Ganymede
Europa
Callisto
Io
Which of the following inactive and/or deorbited spacecraft is not Canadian?
a) Alouette-1
b) ISIS
c) Envisat
d) RADARSAT-1
Envisat (it's European!)
Which pioneering astronomer catalogued over 800 000 stars and nebulae in the early 20th century?
a) Annie Jump Cannon
b) Maria Mitchell
c) Margaret Hamilton
d) Caroline Herschel
Annie Jump Cannon
Stars that are actively fusing helium in their cores, comprised by stars of classifications KGBFOAM, are:
a) White dwarfs
b) Main sequence stars
c) Made of cheese
d) Black holes
Main sequence stars
The first female commander of the International Space Station.
Peggy Whitson
Which planet in our Solar System has the shortest day, completing a full rotation in just under 10 hours?
Jupiter
Which spacecraft was intentionally steered into Saturn at the end of its mission to avoid potentially contaminating its moons?
Cassini
Famously derived an equation to calculate the chances of advanced alien civilizations in the universe.
Francis Drake
When three or more planets or moons in our solar system line up is called
Syzygy
What was the name of the first Soviet rover to explore the moon in 1970?
a) Lunokhod 1
b) Vostok
c) Luna 9
d) Zond 5
Lunokhod 1
What is the largest moon of Neptune known as?
Triton
Name an unlaunched spacecraft mission currently under development by the CSA
QEYSSAT
WildFireSat
Arctic Observation Mission
WaterSat