Test 1

Question 1

Soviet Union first satellite

Answer 1

Sputnik, 1957

Question 2

At the height of the Cold War in 1961, the Soviets put first human’ ____, in Earth orbit.

Answer 2

Yuri Gargarin

Question 3

Precursors landings to moon

Answer 3

Surveyor Project (1966-1968)

Question 4

Photos of Lunar surface

Answer 4

Ranger project (1964-1965)

Question 5

Russian trips to moon with animals and back

Answer 5

5 Zond Missions (1965-1970)

Question 6

Pre-Apollo human flight with six trips orbiting around earth

Answer 6

Project Mercury (1961-1963)

Question 7

Pre-Apolla ten flights with two people

Answer 7

Project Gemini (1965-1966)

Question 8

Number of successful Apollo mission

Answer 8

6 (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) (1963-1972)

Question 9

Apollo equipment

Answer 9

Saturn V equipment, orbiting command module, lunar module, rover

Question 10

Space shuttle program

Answer 10

1981-2011 (135 missions)

Question 11

International Space Station

Answer 11

1998-present

Question 12

Venus flybys

Answer 12

Mariner 2 (1962), Mariner 5 (1967), Vanera 4 (1967), Vanera 5,6 (1969), v = russian

Question 13

Soviet Mars 2,3

Answer 13

First soft landing on Mars and orbit (1971)

Question 14

Pioneer 10,11

Answer 14

(1972-1973) First to Jupyter, Saturn and way outtt w/ naked homies

Question 15

Viking 1,2

Answer 15

Each had orbiter and lander, trying to get better resolution of Mars, search for life, and characterize surface

Question 16

Voyager project

Answer 16

took nice pics of Jupiter, Saturn and flying out deep with record through interstellar medium

Question 17

Pioneer Venus

Answer 17

1978 took pics of atmosphere and got topography

Question 18

Magellan

Answer 18

(1989-1994) radar mapped about 98% of Venus surface at nice resolution

Question 19

Galileo

Answer 19

(1989-2003) six year journey to to take pics of Jupiter and its moons

Question 20

Mars Pathfinder

Answer 20

(1996) first rover on mars

Question 21

NASA Budget

Answer 21

0.047% of fed budget, 19.5$ billion, fed is 4,015$ bill

Question 22

Mars Global Surveyor (MOLA)

Answer 22

(1996-2006) took some nice photos n looked for water with topography

Question 23

Mars Odyssey Orbiter

Answer 23

(2001-present) map the distribution of water

Question 24

Genesis Discovery Mission

Answer 24

(2001-2004) collected particles from solar wind in arrays then crashed on return

Question 25

Stardust Discovery Mission

Answer 25

(1999-2006) Used aerogel to collect comet tail particles

Question 26

Mars Rovers (2003)

Answer 26

Spirit n Opportunity used RAT to look at rocks

Question 27

Cassini-Huygens

Answer 27

(1997-2004) orbited around Saturn to study rings and discovered six moons

Question 28

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005)

Answer 28

took reall nice pictures of avalanches n trash

Question 29

Messenger

Answer 29

Mercury orbiter

Question 30

Dawn

Answer 30

Asteroid mission that visited both Vesta and Ceras

Question 31

New Horizions

Answer 31

(2006) Pluto flyby, map the surface and characterize composition

Question 32

Mars Science Labaratory

Answer 32

Curiosity, had the chem cam and stuff from a bunch of countries, sky craned in, landed in gale crater

Question 33

Mars 2020 Rover

Answer 33

Got that supercam, get prepared for sample return