Space exploration trivia

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• Which country landed people on the surface of the Moon in the twentieth century?Space exploration
• About how high is the orbit the International Space Station travels in?Space exploration
• Which country was the first to land a probe on the far side of the Moon?Space exploration
• Which crewed lunar programme did the United States pursue in the 2020s to send people back to the Moon?Space exploration
• What kind of body did Japan's Hayabusa2 take surface samples from and send back to Earth?Space exploration
• What is the cover at the top of a launch vehicle that shields the satellite and is thrown off once the air thins out?Space exploration
• Which government agency runs space development in the United States?Space exploration
• Which kind of satellite watches clouds and storms from above for use in weather forecasting?Space exploration
• Which private space company operates Falcon 9, whose first stage is landed and flown again?Space exploration
• What is it called when a spacecraft approaches a space station and locks firmly onto it?Space exploration
• A spacecraft coming back into Earth's atmosphere barely heats up on the outside.Space exploration
• The first animal to orbit Earth was a dog named Laika.Space exploration
• The Space Shuttle was a crewed spacecraft whose orbiter was built to be flown again and again.Space exploration
• A spacecraft comes to a stop as soon as it shuts down its engine in space.Space exploration
• Apollo 13 landed on the Moon and then brought its whole crew home safely.Space exploration
• China has sent an astronaut into space aboard a spacecraft it built itself.Space exploration
• Objects float inside the International Space Station because Earth's gravity does not reach that altitude.Space exploration
• Because the Moon has no wind or rain, the footprints left by the Apollo astronauts stay as they were for a very long time.Space exploration
• A space launch vehicle climbs by dropping each lower stage in turn once its propellant is spent.Space exploration
• Astronauts go outside into space and work with their bodies unprotected, wearing no spacesuit.Space exploration
• What kind of instrument is Hubble?Space exploration
• Which country launched Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite?Space exploration
• Where is the Naro Space Center, from which Nuri is launched?Space exploration
• Which part of the electromagnetic spectrum does the James Webb Space Telescope mainly observe?Space exploration
• What was South Korea's first artificial satellite?Space exploration
• Who made the first spacewalk in history?Space exploration
• Who was the first human to fly in space?Space exploration
• Which crewed mission first landed humans on the Moon?Space exploration
• Which space station is run jointly by several countries for research in low Earth orbit?Space exploration
• On which planet do rovers such as Perseverance and Curiosity operate?Space exploration
• A Mars rover explores by driving across the surface of Mars.Space exploration
• The first human to fly in space was Neil Armstrong.Space exploration
• The Hubble Space Telescope observes from outside Earth's atmosphere while orbiting Earth.Space exploration
• The world's first artificial satellite was Apollo 1, launched by the United States.Space exploration
• The James Webb Space Telescope observes the universe mainly in the infrared.Space exploration
• Voyager 1 has passed the heliopause and is exploring interstellar space.Space exploration
• Nuri is a space launch vehicle developed by South Korea.Space exploration
• The mission that first landed humans on the surface of the Moon was Sputnik 1.Space exploration
• The International Space Station (ISS) is a base built fixed to the surface of the Moon.Space exploration
• A rocket climbs to space purely by pushing against the air with its wings.Space exploration