| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The only astronaut to fly both Mercury and Space Shuttle missions | John Glenn | 76%
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| Launched in 1977, this spacecraft visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and is still sending back data from interstellar space | Voyager 2 | 67%
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| First female cosmonaut (1963) | Valentina Tereshkova | 62%
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| The only Mercury astronaut to walk on the moon (1971) | Alan Shepard | 57%
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| This nuclear powered Mars rover has been operating there since 2012 | Curiosity | 52%
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| First successful Mars landers (1976)** | Viking 1 & 2 | 52%
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| First female astronaut (1983) | Sally Ride | 43%
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| Performed history's first spacewalk (USSR 1965) | Alexei Leonov | 38%
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| This mission was the first to flyby an asteroid (1991) and later orbited Jupiter and its moons for 8 years | Galileo | 38%
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| Three astronauts have flown to the Moon twice. Only one did not walk on its surface | Jim Lovell | 38%
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| These twin spacecraft performed the first Jupiter flyby missions (1973, 1974) | Pioneer 1 & 2 | 38%
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| These twin Mars rovers operated for years beyond their original 90-day mission plans (2004 - ) | Spirit and Opporunity | 38%
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| This Soviet program returned photos (and sound!) from the surface of Venus | Venera | 38%
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| This joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) mission was the first to orbit Saturn (2004) | Cassini | 33%
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| This spacecraft flew by Pluto and its moons in 2015 and the ancient Kuiper Belt object, Ultima Thule, in 2018 | New Horizons | 33%
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| Named for a Peanuts cartoon character, the ascent stage of Apollo 10's Lunar Module has been orbiting the Sun since 1969 | Snoopy | 33%
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| Instead, that astronaut flew on this mission (1975) | Apollo-Soyuz Test Project | 29%
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| The only Mercury astronaut who did not fly a Mercury mission | Donald "Deke" Slayton | 29%
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| Performed history's second spacewalk (USA 1965) | Ed White | 29%
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| That mission delivered this ESA-built lander to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon | Huygens | 24%
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| The only astronaut to fly Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle missions | John Young | 24%
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| Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in 1974. This spacecraft was the first to go into orbit around that planet (2011) | MESSENGER | 24%
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| China's unmanned Chang'e-4 mission was the first to land here (2019) *** | Far side of the Moon | 19%
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| Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon. This astronaut was the last... so far (1972) | Gene Cernan | 19%
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| The only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions* | Wally Schirra | 19%
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| Soviet robotic lunar rover and soil sample return program | Lunokhod | 14%
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| First robotic rover deployed on Mars (1997) | Sojourner | 14%
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| Apollo 12 astronauts landed within 200 meters (657 feet) of this earlier, unmanned lander (1969) | Surveyor 3 | 14%
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| This spacecraft used its ion engine to orbit the asteroids Vesta (2011) and Ceres (2015) | Dawn | 10%
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| In lunar orbit since 2009, this satellite has photographed all of the Apollo landing sites and much more | Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) | 10%
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