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Space Trivia: See How Much You Know About Space

Posted by Adam on October 19, 2024

Are you ready to test your space trivia knowledge?

Space is simply fascinating. From looking up at the stars to sending probes into deep space, there is so much to learn.

Do you think you know a lot about space? If so, see how many of these space trivia questions you can answer!

Classic Space Trivia Questions

  1. The flight of which space shuttle in 2011 successfully concluded NASA's space shuttle program?

    • Answer: Atlantis

  2. What name, also given to the spacecraft used, was given to the American space program that ran from 1959 to 1963 with the aim of putting a man in earth orbit?

    • Answer: Mercury

  3. What was the name of Russia's first permanently manned space station, launched in 1988?

    • Answer: MIR

  4. What is the mission of the Kepler Space Observatory launched by NASA in 2009?

    • Answer: To discover Earth-size or smaller planets orbiting other stars in our region of the Milky Way

  5. Miss Able and Miss Baker, the first living creatures to return alive to Earth from space, aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18 in 1959, were what type of animals?

    • Answer: Monkeys

Space Missions and Probes Questions

  1. Which space probe, launched in 1977, is set to reach the edge of the known solar system and be the first man-made object to experience interstellar space?

    • Answer: Voyager 1

  2. What was the name of the Space Probe launched in 2006 to study Pluto?

    • Answer: New Horizons

  3. The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It is a modular structure. When was its first component launched?

    • Answer: 1998

  4. What is the name of the photograph taken by Voyager 1 of the Earth against the vastness of space which lent itself to the title of a 1994 book by Carl Sagan?

    • Answer: Pale Blue Dot

  5. What term describes the use of the gravity of a planet to alter the path and speed of an interplanetary spacecraft?

  • Answer: Gravitational slingshot (or) gravity assist

Astronauts and Space Exploration

  1. Who was the first US astronaut to travel in space?
  • Answer: Alan Shepherd

  1. Name the Soviet Russian orbiting space station, continuously occupied 1989-99 until its replacement by the International Space Station?

    • Answer: Mir

  2. Which Russian was the first man to walk in space?

    • Answer: Alexei Leonov

  3. What color does the planet Neptune appear to be from space?

    • Answer: Blue

  4. Name the space shuttle that exploded in 1986.

    • Answer: Challenger

Fun and Fictional Space Trivia

  1. What was the name of Han Solo's spacecraft in the first 'Star Wars' film to be released?

    • Answer: Millennium Falcon

  2. In the Star Wars series of films, what is the name of the fictional moon-sized spacestation and superweapon, which is capable of destroying a planet with a single destructive energy beam?

    • Answer: Death Star

  3. Which late British actor and game show host was the voice of space navigator Brad Newman in the 1966 film 'Thunderbirds Are Go'?

    • Answer: Bob Monkhouse

  4. In which English county are the National Space Centre and the Foxton canal locks?

    • Answer: Leicestershire

  5. What was the name of the American space station?

    • Answer: Skylab

  6. Currently, the oldest flying space shuttle in the fleet, which shuttle was launched last week on mission STS-133 to the International Space Station?

    • Answer: Discovery

  7. What is the name of the rocket launching site in Australia, used for early British space missions?

    • Answer: Woomera

Conclusion

Space trivia is a fun way to learn more about the universe and its vast mysteries.

If you need more space trivia, check out the ultimate trivia game that brings the fun of space trivia without the need to read questions aloud.

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