1) The first U.S. space station was the __________.
a. Mir
b. Skylab
c. International Space Station

2) The main part of the space shuttle is the _________.
a. Solid rocket booster
b. Lunar module
c. Orbiter

3) What was Mariner 9’s main task?
a. To orbit Mercury and to take pictures
b. To orbit Earth and map the continents
c. To orbit Mars and to take pictures

4) What did Viking 2 do?
a. Followed Viking 1 to Mars
b. Orbited Jupiter
c. Orbited Earth

5) The Hubble Space Telescope is the result of a combined effort from whom?
a. National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) and European Space Agency(ESA)
b. NASA and the Russian Space Agency
c. International Space Cooperative

6) What does the word Mir stand for?
a. Space
b. Exploration
c. Peace or World

7). What was the name of the first space station launched by the USSR?
a. Cosmonaut 1
b. Salyut 1
c. Comrades

8) What is a finder scope?
a. A mini telescope placed on top of a telescope
b. A camera in the telescope
c. A radar tracker on a telescope

9) Where is the largest single radio dish telescope?
a. Russia
b. Antartica
c. Puerto Rico

10) Who was the first American to do a space walk?
a. Edward White
b. Neil Armstrong
c. Charles Conrad

11) Sputnik 2 carried the first passenger in space. The passenger was _______.
a. a hamster
b. a monkey
c. a dog

12) What insect went on Skylab?
a. Ant
b. Spider
c. Cricket

13) What didn’t scientists find out from the Mars Pathfinder mission?
a. Mars had a flood many years ago.
b. Space docking techniques can be improved.
c. Earth technology, such as airbags, can be used in space.

14) Which one is not an achievement of the Hubble Space Telescope?
a. Photographs of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact on Jupiter.
b. First photographs of Pluto.
c. Photographs of Edwin Hubble.

15) Cape Canaveral launched what object?
a. The first spaceship
b. First reusable spacecraft
c. First man-made satellite


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