Planets
Rockets
Houston, We Have a Problem
Galaxies and Black Holes
Asteroids and Comets
100

The third planet from the Sun

What is Earth?

100

Name of the rocket that launched a Tesla into space

What is the Falcon Heavy?

100

Rocket that recently had a launch booster failure and ballistic reentry

What is the Soyuz?

100

Galaxy type of the Milky Way

What is a Spiral Galaxy?

100

The asteroid visited by OSIRIS-REx

What is Bennu?

200

Mar's atmosphere is mostly made of...

What is CO2

200

Name the rocket used for the Apollo 11 mission

What is Saturn V?

200

What caused the Apollo 1 disaster?

What is an electrical fire in the cabin?

200

The name of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way

What is Sagitarius A?

200

The largest asteroid in the solar system

What is Vesta?

300

Distance between the Sun and Jupiter (in AU)

What is 5.2?

300

Name the 5 types of rocket engines.

What are solid, liquid, bi-prop, ion, and plasma rocket engines?

300

NASA mission that failed due to a unit conversion error

What is the Mars Climate Orbiter?

300

Name all 6 galaxy types

What is Spiral, Barred Spiral, Irregular, Peculiar, Letnicular, and Elliptical?

300

Name of the comet visited by Rosetta (+100 bonus points if you spell the Russian name correctly)

What is 67p/Churyumov–Gerasimenko?

400

Rotation period of Mercury

What is 58.6 days?

400

Name all the shuttles

What are Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour?

400

The reason Apollo 13 "failed"

What is oxygen tank no. 2 explosion?

400

Where light cannot escape

What is the event horizon?

400

Most common type of meteorite

What are stones/chondrites?

500

The amount of thrust generated by the Saturn V (in pounds)

What is 7.6 million pounds?

500

The mission that was struck by lightning twice during launch

What is Apollo 12?

500

The minimum mass of a star needed to create a black hole (in solar masses)

What is 2.5 solar masses?

500

The rotation rate of Bennu

What is 1 rotation per 4.29 hours?