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Space 115657 is a selection of 10 questions. Space 115657 is the filename to differentiate it from other Themed Questions. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 In which year did the first crewed spaceflight take place?
A 12th April, 1961 (Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth)
2 What name is given to visible clouds of dust and gas in space?
A Nebulae
3 NASA’s Johnson Space Centre is in which American state?
A Texas (Houston)
4 Astronauts Grissom, White, and Chafee died in 1967 at the launch pad of which US spacecraft?
A Apollo 1
5 Which planet has 34 known moons, the first of which, named Iapetus, was discovered in 1681 by Cassini?
A Saturn
6 Britain’s first space rocket was launched in 1964, what was it called?
A Blue Streak
7 In which year did the ‘Jet Age’ become the ‘Space Age’?
A 1957 – beginning with the launch of Sputnik 1 on October 4, 1957
8 The Giotto space probe was launched in 1986 specifically to examine which comet?
A Halley’s Comet
9 The name of which Russian spacecraft means ‘east”?
A Vostok
10 Which planet, based on the average distance, is closest to the earth?
A Venus. At its closest proximity to Earth, the hellish planet is only around 24 million miles (38 million kilometres) away from our planet, and no other planet gets closer to us