Space Exploration Quiz

Apollo 11, led by astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, achieved humanity's first Moon landing on July 20, 1969.

On March 18, 1965, Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov of USSR exited the Voskhod 2 through an inflatable airlock attached to the spacecraft's hatch and spent 12 minutes outside, tethered by an umbilical cord.

The last person to land on the Moon, as of 2024, was Eugene Cernan, the commander of NASA's Apollo 17 mission. He and his crewmate, Harrison Schmitt, explored the lunar surface in December 1972.

Roscosmos is the Russian space exploration agency, officially known as the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Sally Ride became the first American woman and the first woman outside the Russian block in space in 1983, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

The Soviet Venus program was called Venera. It successfully sent multiple spacecraft to Venus, including Venera 7, which became the first to transmit data from the Venus surface in 1970.

The first Asian space agency to successfully reach Mars' orbit was ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) with its Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan) in 2014.

China’s Chang’e 4 mission successfully landed on the far side of the Moon on January 3, 2019.

Vostok 1. Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to orbit Earth aboard Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961.

Salyut 1, launched by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971, was the first space station. It orbited Earth for 175 days, conducting scientific experiments and military observations.