Name: Email: 1. What was the name of the first man made object to orbit earth? Apollo 11 Salyut Sputnik 2. The Mir space station was launched on... June 1, 1984 December 31, 1990 February 19, 1986 3. What is the name of the Japanese space agency? The Japan Space Agengy(JSA) The National Space Agency of Japan(NASDA) The Space Agency of Japan(SAJ) 4. What was the name of the second man to walk on the moon? Edwin Aldrin Michael Collins Ron Evans 5. Staying too long in space can cause... Brain damage Motion sickness Muscle and bone deterioration 6. What was the name of the first American space station? Mir Skylab Spacelab 7. Biosphere 1 is... Earth A previous scientific venture that failed Another project like biosphere 2 8. Who was the first man in space? Neil Armstrong Yuri Gagarin Jim Lovell 9. What year was the planet Uranus discovered? 1781 1821 1750 10. What is the brightest star in the sky?? Alpha Centauri Sirius Proxima Centauri 11. What is the largest moon in the solar system? Ganymede Titan Our Moon 12. Excluding the sun, what is the closest star to earth? Proxima Centauri Alpha Centauri Gamma Centauri 13. Solar enery is the result of... Complex chemical reactions Nuclear fusion reactions within the sun None of the above 14. What was the Apollo mission that took the first and second man to the moon... Apollo 11 Apollo 9 Apollo 13 15. Biosphere 2 consists of the following systems... Plains, marsh, ocean, desert Savanna, marsh, rainforest and ocean Desert, plains, ocean 16. Is Spacelab a fully independent orbiting space station? True False Sorry , quiz is no longer active.