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#1
Q: First artificial satellite?
A: Sputnik 1, USSR, October 4 1957.
#2
Q: First human in space?
A: Yuri Gagarin, April 12 1961.
#3
Q: First Moon walk?
A: Neil Armstrong, July 20 1969.
#4
Q: What does NASA stand for?
A: National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
#5
Q: Mars rover landed 2021?
A: Perseverance (NASA), February 18 2021.
#6
Q: What is the ISS?
A: International Space Station — crewed since 2000.
#7
Q: Light travel time Sun → Earth?
A: About 8 minutes 20 seconds.
#8
Q: What was the Space Shuttle?
A: NASA's reusable spacecraft, 1981–2011.
#9
Q: What is Hubble?
A: Space telescope launched 1990 capturing deep-space images.
#10
Q: Planets Voyager 2 visited?
A: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
#11
Q: What is geostationary orbit?
A: Orbit where satellite stays above one Earth point at ~35,786 km.
#12
Q: Last Moon landing year?
A: 1972 (Apollo 17).
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