Quiz. Space exploration

Space exploration has always been a romantic idea of people. But it was only in the 1960ies that this dream was to become a reality.

What do you know about space exploration? Do the following quiz and check how well you know the historical events, dates and prominent faces of space exploration.

1. When does Russia celebrate the Cosmonautics Day?

a) on the 12th of April

b) on the 23rd of February

c) on the 9th of March

Correct answer is a) On 12th April 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.

2. Do the crossword. Find 8 “space” words.

Galaxy, telescope, planet, atmosphere, spaceship, satellite, sun, universe.

3. Put these animals from the first to the last to explore space.

a) a monkey (Albert II)

b) a dog (Laika)

c) flies

Correct answer is: cab

In 1947, fruit flies were sent into space.

Albert II (the first monkey in space) went into space on 14th June, 1949

In November 1957, the Russian space dog Laika became the first animal to orbit the earth.

4. Match the names of these famous people with the discoveries made by them.

Nicolaus Copernicus – said the Earth was not the center of the universe. The sun was.

Isaak Newton – created three laws of motion.

Galileo Galilei – created his own telescope.

5. Who was the first woman in space?

a) Marilyn Monroe

b) Valentina Tereshkova

c) Margaret Thatcher

Correct answer is b) in 1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

6. How was the first satellite launched into space in 1957 by the Soviet Union called?

a) Sputnik 1

b) Soyuz 1

c) Vostok 1

Correct answer is a) Sputnik 1

7. Do the puzzle.

last/ R on A/ sun = astronaut

8. Gagarin’s spaceship Vostok 1 was designed to crash land. How did Gagarin get back on Earth?

a) using his parachute

b) using turbo-jet wings

c) using a hot air balloon

Correct answer is a) using his parachute.

9. How was the first remote-controlled robot landed on another world in 1970 by the Soviet Union called. Guess the word by using the following clues:

1. the second letter in PLANET.

2. the first letter in UNIVERSE.

3. the sixth letter in COSMONAUT.

4. the second/third letter in MOON.

5. the fourth letter in MILKY.

6. the seventh letter in ATMOSPHERE.

7. the second letter in SOLAR.

8. the first letter in DISTANCE.

Correct answer is LUNOKHOD.

10. What was the aim of the Apollo space program?

a) sending a man into space

b) landing a man on the moon

c) finding a planet where life can exist.

Correct answer is b) landing a man on the moon.

11. Put the planets of the solar system in their order starting from the closest to the sun.

The order of the planets from the closest to the sun outwards is:

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.

12. What other planets besides the Moon did the USA and the Soviet Union manage to explore? Match the countries and the planets.

a) Venus                        1. the USA

b) Saturn                       2. the USSR

c) Neptune

d) Jupiter

e) Uranus

f) Mars

Voyages to Venus and Mars were made by the Soviet spaceships, voyages to Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune and Saturn – by the American spaceships.

13. Read the following abbreviation – ISS correctly?

a) Investigation of Strange Symbols

b) International Space Station

c) Intellectual Space Safety

Correct answer is b) The International Space Station (ISS) – a huge space station for research and space exploration began construction in 1986, with the final major module arriving in 2010.

14. How was the first Russian space station called?

a) Sputnik I

b) Mir

c) Salyut I

Correct answer is c) on 19 April 1971 the Russians launched the first space station, Salyut I.

15. What is the first space tourist’s name?

a) Dennis Tito

b) Bill Gates

c) Mark Zuckerberg

Correct answer is a) On the 28th April 2001 American millionaire Dennis Tito became the first space tourist when he paid around 20 million dollars for a ride in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

16. Who was the first to walk on the lunar surface?

a) Alexei Leonov

b) Neil Armstrong

c) Vladimir Titov

Correct answer is b) Neil Armstrong walked on the lunar surface in July 1969.

17. What is our home galaxy in the universe?

a) The Sombrero Galaxy

b) The Andromeda Galaxy

c) The Milky Way

Correct answer is c) The Milky Way.

18. What did the American probe Voyager 1 have a golden disk “The sounds of Earth” for?

a) for listening during the travel

b) it was a message for the aliens

c) one of the constructors of the probe has left it by mistake

Correct answer is b) The Voyager Golden Records are phonograph records that were included aboard Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977. They were intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for future humans, who may find them.

19. How did the heroes of Jules Verne’s famous novel “From the Earth to the Moon” manage to get into space?

a) by means of a huge gun

b) they travelled in a shuttle

c) by means of jet rucksacks

Correct answer is a) by means of a huge gun.

20. Who constructed the first spaceship?

a) K. Tsiolkovskiy

b) A A Leonov

c) Sergei Pavlovich Korolev

Correct answer is c) Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. He is considered by many as the father of practical astronautics.

I hope now you can claim that you know the history of space exploration very well. Who knows, maybe one of you will make a decision to devote his life to science.

Remember, the more we explore space and experiment, the faster our technology and methods will develop and the better we will understand our universe and planet.