What unit of length is equal to around 5.8 trillion miles?
Light Year
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What was the name of the dog the Russians launched into space in 1957 inside Sputnik 2?
Laika
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Which scientist was charged with heresy in 1633 for his view that the earth orbits the sun?
Galileo Galilei
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Which planet in our solar system spins the fastest?
Jupiter - Rotates once every 10 hours approximately
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In which Year Was The Orbiting Hubble Telescope Launched?
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
1990
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How many planets in our solar system are not named after a Roman god or goddess?
1 - Earth
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An Astronomical Unit is defined as the mean distance between the centres of which 2 objects?
Earth and Sun
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What planet in our solar system has the strongest gravity?
Jupiter
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Which 'C' is the outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere and is only visible with the naked eye during a solar eclipse?
Corona
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True or false, Jupiter has over 70 moons?
TRUE
It has between 80 and 95 by current counts
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In which year did Yuri Gagarin become the first human to travel into space?
1961
April 12th, 1961
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How many times does the International Space Station see the sun rise each day?
- 16
- 20
- 24
16
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Which planet in our solar system has the highest density?
Earth
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True or False - The mass of the planet Jupiter is about 2.5 times the combined mass of all the other planets in the solar system combined?
TRUE
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Which planet in the night sky is brightest, as seen from Earth?
Venus
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In which year was Halley's Comet last visible from Earth?
- 1986
- 1987
- or 1988
1986
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What was the name of the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the moon?
Luna 2
(also known as Lunik 2) in 1959 - Apollo 11 was in 1969 and was the first manned mission
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In the Apollo 11 moon mission, who was the astronaut that that stayed in the command module and therefore did not get to walk on the moon's surface?
Michael Collins
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What was the name of the spacecraft in which Yuri Gagarin became the first human to journey into outer space?
Vostok
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In 1954, Ann Hodges from Oak Grove, Alabama, became the first person in recorded history to be struck by what?
A meteorite
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What are the names of Mars two moons?
Phobos or Deimos
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The Mars Climate Orbiter Probe was lost in September 1999 upon arrival at Mars. What was the famous reason given for this?
The software and hardware were designed using different units of measurement (pound-force seconds vs newton seconds)
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How many million miles away is the sun from the Earth?
93 million miles (avg)
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Roughly how long does it take for the sun's light to reach Earth?
- 8 Seconds
- 8 Minutes
- 8 Hours
- 8 Days
8 minutes
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What was the name of the first man-made satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?
Sputnik 1
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Which Apollo moon mission was the first to carry a lunar rover?
Apollo 15
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Which two planets in the solar system lack moons?
Mercury and Venus
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