Space Missions and Astronauts

What this quiz asks

• Who became the first human to travel into space?
• Who was the first woman to fly in space?
• What was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth?
• How many people have walked on the surface of the Moon?
• Apollo 13 completed its Moon landing exactly as planned.
• Which spacecraft was the first to reach interstellar space?
• Select ALL of these that have driven across the surface of Mars.
• Which mission spent 13 years orbiting Saturn before diving into the planet in 2017?
• Who stayed in the command module in lunar orbit while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the Moon?
• Who carried out the first spacewalk?
• Which space station did the Soviet Union and then Russia operate from 1986 until 2001?
• Which observatory launched in 1990 and was later repaired in orbit by shuttle astronauts?
• Which country first landed a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon?
• Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?
• Select ALL of these that were NASA crewed spaceflight programmes of the 1960s.
• Select ALL of these astronauts who actually walked on the Moon.
• The International Space Station circles the Earth roughly once every 90 minutes.
• Laika, the first dog to orbit the Earth, was safely returned home.
• Was Apollo 8 the first crewed mission to orbit the Moon?
• How many days did the Apollo 11 mission last, from launch to splashdown?