Space Exploration Quiz (HARD)

Do you know your rocket science? This quiz focuses on space exploitation trivia and history

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First man in space	Yuri Gagarin
First artificial satellite	Sputnik
Name of rocket/ICBM that launched first satellite	R-7 Semyorka
Name of rocket/ICBM that launched first American into space	Mercury Redstone
Farthest manmade object	Voyager 1
Main Soviet rocket launch site	Baikonur Cosmodrome
Farthest planet from the sun	Neptune
Only spacecraft to reach farthest planet	Voyager 2
Year NASA was founded	1958
Name of NASA before it became NASA	NACA
Designer of the V-2	Wernher Von Braun
Name of capsule used in Artemis prorgram	Orion
Soviet probes that landed on Venus	Venera
Name of radiation belts in space around Earth	Van Allen Radiation Belts
First spacecraft to land on Mars	Viking 1
Name of failed Soviet moon rocket	N-1
Name of first US space station	Skylab
Name of NASA program that preceded Apollo	Gemini
Space maneuver to go from Earth orbit towards the Moon	Trans-Lunar Injection
Name of Lunar basin where Apollo 11 landed	Sea of Tranquility
Name of CM Pilot of Apollo 11 that didn't walk on the moon	Michael Collins
First spacecraft to orbit Jupiter	Galileo
Number of last Apollo mission to land on the Moon	17
Year of last Apollo mission	1972
Spacecraft part meant to keep vessel safe during reentry	Heat Shield
Name of main liquid fueled engines the Space Shuttle and SLS used	RS-25
Component that exploded on Apollo 13	Oxygen Tank
First name of the man after whom a space telescope launched in 1990 was named	Edwin
Titan is the moon of this planet	Saturn
Name of probe that landed on Titan in 2005	Huygens

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