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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?	Neil Armstrong	98%
The space telescope launched in 1990 was named after which astronomer?	Edwin Hubble	86%
Who was the first man in outer space?	Yuri Gagarin	85%
Which was the first galaxy to be discovered and recognised as separate from the Milky Way?	Andromeda	73%
What is the furthest man-made object from Earth?	Voyager 1	73%
What does the first A in NASA stand for?	Aeronautics	65%
Name the space shuttle which exploded shortly after take-off in 1986.	Challenger	64%
Nicolaus Copernicus was born in which modern-day country?	Poland	55%
Who played Commander Jim Lovell in the 1995 movie Apollo 13?	Tom Hanks	50%
Which president set up NASA?	Dwight D Eisenhower	46%
Galileo dicovered the correct explanation for which feature of the Sun's surface in 1612?	Sunspots	39%
Which nation joined the space race in 2012 with the launch of its satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3?	North Korea	36%
Which space probe, launched by the USA in 2006 to study Pluto, is expected to arrive in July 2015?	New Horizons	23%
What was the name of the first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971?	Salyut 1	22%
What was the name of the European Space Agency mission to land on a comet in 2014?	Rosetta	21%

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