Grade 11 · Astronomy
This quiz helps revise “Spaceflight” in Astronomy for grade 11. It has 25 questions in five categories: Firsts in Space, Moon Missions, Orbital Mechanics, Robotic Explorers, Stations & Shuttles. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which pictured Soviet spacecraft became the first artificial object to orbit Earth after its 1957 launch?
Who became the first human to orbit Earth in a spacecraft in 1961?
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In the gameWhich orbital station, launched…
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Who became the first person to step onto the Moon in 1969?
Which 1968 mission first carried humans into orbit around the Moon?
Which 1970 mission looped…
In the gameWhich 1971 mission was…
In the gameWhich 1972 mission became…
In the gameWhat force continually bends a satellite's motion toward Earth and keeps it in orbit?
What is the closest point to Earth in an elliptical Earth orbit called?
What is the farthest…
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In the gameWhat circular equatorial path…
In the gameWhich spacecraft became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space in 2012?
Which American spacecraft was the first to operate for a long time on the Martian surface after landing in 1976?
Which spacecraft made the…
In the gameWhich probe landed on…
In the gameFrom which pictured asteroid…
In the gameWhich orbiter flew the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, in 1981?
What was the first ISS module, launched in November 1998?
What was the first…
In the gameWhich two Shuttle components…
In the gameWhich section of a…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.