History and evolution of space exploration MCQs – Aerospace March 11, 2025September 11, 2024 by u930973931_answers 10 Score: 0 Attempted: 0/20 1. The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth was: (A) Sputnik 1 (B) Voyager 1 (C) Apollo 11 (D) Hubble Space Telescope 2. The Apollo 11 mission is famous for: (A) Landing the first humans on the Moon (B) Launching the first artificial satellite (C) Orbiting Jupiter (D) Exploring Mars 3. The Space Shuttle program was initiated by: (A) NASA (B) ESA (C) Roscosmos (D) JAXA 4. The first human to travel into space was: (A) Yuri Gagarin (B) Alan Shepard (C) Neil Armstrong (D) John Glenn 5. The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in: (A) 1990 (B) 1985 (C) 2000 (D) 1975 6. The Soviet Union’s space station program began with: (A) Mir (B) Skylab (C) ISS (D) Salyut 7. The first manned mission to the Moon was: (A) Apollo 11 (B) Apollo 13 (C) Apollo 8 (D) Apollo 7 8. The Mars Rover Curiosity was launched in: (A) 2011 (B) 2008 (C) 2012 (D) 2010 9. The first space probe to reach interstellar space was: (A) Voyager 1 (B) Pioneer 10 (C) New Horizons (D) Cassini 10. The first successful landing on Mars was achieved by: (A) Viking 1 (B) Mars Pathfinder (C) Spirit (D) Opportunity 11. The international collaborative space station currently in orbit is: (A) International Space Station (ISS) (B) Mir (C) Skylab (D) Salyut 12. The first spacecraft to land on a comet was: (A) Rosetta (B) Voyager 2 (C) Cassini (D) Juno 13. The Gemini program was designed to: (A) Develop spacewalk techniques and test space rendezvous (B) Land humans on the Moon (C) Explore Mars (D) Launch satellites 14. The first successful test flight of the Space Shuttle occurred in: (A) 1981 (B) 1979 (C) 1983 (D) 1975 15. The first spacewalk (extravehicular activity) was conducted by: (A) Alexei Leonov (B) Neil Armstrong (C) Buzz Aldrin (D) Yuri Gagarin 16. The lunar module that landed on the Moon during Apollo 11 was called: (A) Eagle (B) Columbia (C) Orion (D) Liberty 17. The first spacecraft to fly past Pluto was: (A) New Horizons (B) Voyager 1 (C) Cassini (D) Pioneer 10 18. The first space probe to visit the outer planets was: (A) Pioneer 10 (B) Voyager 2 (C) New Horizons (D) Cassini 19. The Soviet Union’s space program achieved the first human spaceflight with: (A) Vostok 1 (B) Soyuz 1 (C) Mir (D) Sputnik 1 20. The space agency known for the Chang’e lunar missions is: (A) CNSA (B) ESA (C) NASA (D) JAXA