April 12, 1961 Traveling aboard a Vostok 1 space craft this Russian becomes the first in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
100
This Russian school teacher predicted the landing on the moon and drew up plans for early space travel.
Who is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?
100
This platform holds the record for longest continuous human occupation of space.
What is the International Space Station launched 31 October 2000.
100
This space probe discovered the first asteroid satellite - "Dactyl" in August of 1993.
What is Gallileo?
100
This mission did a flyby of Mercury in March of 1974.
What is Mariner 10?
200
On May 5, 1961 this American answers the call and flies the "Freedom 7" spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket to become the first American in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
200
This American inventor built and flew the worlds first liquid fuel rocket.
Who is Robbert Goddard?
200
Valery Bykovsky flew on Vostok V to set this record in June of 1963.
What is longest solo flight in space. (4 days 23 hours)
200
This space probe visited the comet 19P/Borrelly.
What is Deep Space 1?
200
This mission launched by USSR in December of 1970 became the first successful landing on another planet - Venus.
What is Vanera 7?
300
This person was the first human to orbit the earth in April of 1961.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
300
This famous German rocket scientist published a book entitled "The Rocket into Interplanetary Space" which inspired the world to research rocketry as a means of leaving the planet.
Who is Hermann Oberth?
300
These two astronauts aboard Apollo 17 set the record for time on the lunar surface (74 hours 59 minutes and 40 seconds)
Who are Eugene Cernan and
Harrison Schmidt?
300
This space probe left Earth in December 1973 and Left the Solar System in 2005 is now presumed dead. Last contact 2003.
What is Pioneer 10?
300
This mission by NASA yielded the firs images of the surface of Mars.
What is Viking 1?
400
This pilot from the Korean War became the first person to set foot on the moon aboard the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.
Who is Neal Armstrong?
400
This German rocket designer designed and supervised the German V2 rocket - the first rocket capable of reaching space and later designed the Saturn V rocket putting Americans on the moon.
Who is Wernher Von Braun?
400
The Apollo 10 mission achieved the highest speed relative to this celestial body. (They reached the speed of 39,896 km/h or 24,790 mph or .000037 percent the speed of light)
What is earth?
400
This probe left Earth in 1980 Left the Solar System in 2012 is still transmitting data and is expected to keep contact until at least 2020.
What is Voyager 1?
400
This probe launched by the US in December of 1973 became the first probe to do a flyby of Jupiter, the first probe to cross the asteroid belt, the first man made object on an interstellar trajectory.
What is Pioneer 10?
500
On June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova had the glorious distinction of becoming this.....
What is the first woman in space (2 days 23 hours)
500
Robert Dornberger a German Rocket scientist designed and submitted a plan to President Nixon for the X-15 which eventually became known as this space platform.
What is the space shuttle?
500
This cosmonaut became the youngest person to go to space at just 25 years of age.