Space Exploration

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Who was the first man in outer space?

Who was the first man to walk on the moon?

What is the furthest man-made object from Earth?

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in which modern-day country?

What was the name of the European Space Agency mission to land on a comet in 2014?

Which president set up NASA?

What does the first A in NASA stand for?

Which was the first galaxy to be discovered and recognised as separate from the Milky Way?

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The space telescope launched in 1990 was named after which astronomer?

Galileo dicovered the correct explanation for which feature of the Sun's surface in 1612?

Name the space shuttle which exploded shortly after take-off in 1986.

Who played Commander Jim Lovell in the 1995 movie Apollo 13?

What was the name of the first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971?

Which nation joined the space race in 2012 with the launch of its satellite Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3?

Which space probe, launched by the USA in 2006 to study Pluto, is expected to arrive in July 2015?