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Which astronaut did Tom hanks play in 'Apollo 13'
Jim Lovell
The car that was launched in the Falcon Heavy by SpaceX in 2018
Tesla Roadster
The spacecrafts that visited the outer planets, launched in 1977
Voyager
The astrophysicist that was deemed 'sexiest astrophysicist alive'
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The rocket that was used in the Apollo program to send astronauts into the moon
Saturn V
The German turned American rocket scientist that created the rocket above
Wernher Von Braun
The greek counterpart of Neptune
Poseidon
The Soviet satellite that was launched in 1957, kickstarted the space race
Sputnik
Largest object in the asteroid belt
Ceres
First American woman in space
Sally Ride
The planet where Spock is from in 'Star Trek'
Vulcan
How many constellations are there?
88
The adjective for Jupiter
Jovian
Name given for planets orbiting other stars
exoplanet
The Saturnian moon that has a thick atmosphere and methane lakes
Titan
UFO stands for:
Unidentified flying object
The name of the Lunar Module of Apollo 11
Eagle
Actor played Mark Watney in 'The Martian'
Matt Damon
The soviet space shuttle, flown once in 1988
Buran
The physicist that invented the reflecting telescope, also named after himself
Isaac Newton
The opening song of '2001 a space odysssy'
Also sprach Zarathustra
Closest galaxy that isn't the Milky Way's satellite
Andromeda Galaxy
Canadian astronaut that performed 'Space Oddity' in the ISS in 2013 and went viral
Chris Hadfield
The process in which black holes evaporates, named after famous physicist
Hawking radiation
Russian space station during 1986 - 2001, precursor to the ISS
Mir
The US president that created NASA
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Nazi rocket that terrorised London and Antwerp in 1944 and 1945
V2
Astronomer who discovered 4 moons around Jupiter in 1610, debunked Aristotelian cosmology
Galileo Galilei
Closest star to our sun
Proxima centauri
The moons of Uranus are named after the characters in plays written by those writers
William Shakespeare
Alexander Pope
Singer of 'Life on Mars' and 'Starman'
David Bowie
The galactic supercluster that we are in
Virgo Supercluster
The planet that the Death Star destroyed in 'Star Wars: A new hope'
Alderaan
The astronomer that hosted 'Cosmos: A personal voyage'
Carl Sagan
The space shuttle that exploded and killed 7 astronauts 1986
Challenger
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