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The History of Space Flight

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  • Q1
    Who was the first person in space?
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    Yuri Gagarin
    Alan B. Shepard Jr.
    Neil Armstrong
    Buzz Aldrin
    30s
  • Q2
    What was astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr famous for doing?
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    First man to spacewalk
    First man to land on the moon
    First man to fly around the moon
    First American in space
    30s
  • Q3
    What first happened on the Vostok 6 mission of June 16, 1963?
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    First landing on the moon
    First flight around the moon
    First dog in space
    First woman in space
    30s
  • Q4
    What first happened during the Voskhod 2 mission on March 1965
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    First animal in space
    First person to spacewalk
    First photograph of the Earth
    First man on the Moon
    30s
  • Q5
    What remarkable event happened on July 20, 1969?
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    Man first landed on Mars
    Man first flew around the Moon
    Man first landed on the Moon
    Man first flew around the Sun
    30s
  • Q6
    In April 1970, the Apollo 13 mission was famous for the miraculous survival of all three astronauts after what disaster happened two days into the mission?
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    The capsule started to heat up too fast
    A piece fell off the space capsule
    The capsule's computer stopped working
    A vital oxygen tank exploded
    30s
  • Q7
    The first probe to land on Mars, Viking 1, landed on July 20, 1976. How many successful missions to Mars have there been in total?
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    5
    26
    3
    1
    30s
  • Q8
    What was the name of the first space shuttle to go into space on April 12 1982?
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    Challenger
    Discovery
    Enterprise
    Columbia
    30s
  • Q9
    What spacecraft has been lived in continuously for nearly 20 years since its first occupants moved in on 2 November 2000?
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    The Mir Space Station
    The Soyuz
    The Discovery Space Shuttle
    The International Space Station (ISS)
    30s
  • Q10
    When does Space X currently plan to launch its first manned mission to Mars?
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    2029
    2034
    2024
    2039
    30s

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