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1 Who was the UK Prime Minister when Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space on 12th April 1961?
A Harold MacMillan
2 After the moon, what was the second body in the solar system visited by a spacecraft from earth?
A Venus
3 In which year was Helen Sharman the first Briton in space?
A 1991
4 What is the name of the spacecraft that served as the crewed lunar lander of Apollo 11, which was the first mission to land humans on the Moon?
A Eagle
5 The first artificial Earth satellite ‘Sputnik’ was launched by the Soviet Union in which year?
A 4th October 1957 (it to fell back into the atmosphere on 4th January 1958) The word sputnik is Russian for satellite
6 On a space mission on 24th April 1967, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov became the first human being to do what?
A To die in a space flight (A parachute failure caused his Soyuz capsule to crash into the ground after re-entry on 24 April 1967)
7 During which astronomical phenomenon, would a person see Baily’s Beads?
A A total Solar Eclipse
8 Which space agency built the ‘Ariane’ rocket?
A European Space Agency
9 What was the name of the spacecraft that took the first American woman, Sally Ride, into space?
A Challenger
10 In space what is the oort cloud made out of?
A Comets (sometimes called the Öpik–Oort cloud, is theorized to be a vast cloud of icy solid objects)