Space Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

Trivia quiz questions with answers about outer space.

Space Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers

1. Which space first was achieved by Toyohiro Akiyama in 1991?
    
2. How long did the record-breaking space walk from space shuttle Endeavor last in 1993?
    
3. On which island is the Kennedy Space Center?
    
4. Where did the European space probe Ulysses set off for in 1991?
    
5. What did Neil Armstrong say immediately before "the eagle has landed"?
    
6. What was the name of the first chimpanzee sent into space by America?
    
 
7. On what date in 1997 did Pathfinder land on Mars right on schedule?
    
8. Who was the next American in space after Sheppard?
    
9. In which year were all three astronauts on the first Moon landing expedition born?
    
10. Which probe sent back the first major pictures of Jupiter in 1995?
     
11. Who made the first un-tethered space walk of the 1990s?
     
12. What was the name of the first probe to send back pictures from Mars?
     
13. On which ship did President Nixon welcome the astronauts back from the Moon?
     
14. Which scientist located Pluto?
     
 
15. In what year was Hale Bopp first seen?
     
16. Which three astronauts died during a launch pad rehearsal in 1967
     
17. What is Neil Armstrong's middle name?
     
18. What was the name of the Japanese Moon orbiter launched in 1990?
     
19. Which cosmonaut returned to Earth in 1996 after spending a record-breaking 438 days in space?
     
20. Who was the second Soviet cosmonaut?
     
21. What was the nationality of the journalist who accompanied a docking mission to MIR in 1990?
     
22. How long did Sergei Krikalyev spend on Mir in the early 90s?
     
 
23. What was the role of Rocco Petrone in the Apollo XI project?
     
24. Who was the first woman to captain a space shuttle crew?
     
25. How many orbits of the Moon were there on the first manned orbit?
     

Daily Trivia Quiz #23 -  Space - Answers

1. First fare-paying passenger.
2. Five hours.
3. Merritt.
 
4. The Sun.
5. Tranquility base here.
6. Ham
7. 4th July.
8. Virgil Grissom.
9. 1930.
10. Galileo.
11. Mark Lee.
12. Viking.
13. Hornet.
 
14. Clyde Tombaulgh.
15. 1995.
16. Gus Grissom, Ed White & Roger Chaffee.
17. Alden.
18. Muses-A.
19. Polyakov.
20. Titov.
21. Japanese.
22. Ten months.
23. Launch director.
24. Eileen Collins.
25. 10.