General Awareness · Physics

Space Exploration and Astronomy

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Review significant milestones in space exploration, including artificial satellites, reusable space shuttles, and historic lunar landings. This topic also covers astronomical phenomena and telescopic observations. Such scientific general knowledge is commonly tested in SSC, railways, and banking examinations.

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Space Exploration and Astronomy Questions

Multiple choice

‘NASA’ is the space research organization of

  1. Russia

  2. UK

  3. USA

  4. China

  5. Germany
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It is the United States government's civilian space program and aerospace research agency, established in 1958.

Multiple choice

Which of the following options is false?

  1. Space shuttle is composed of three main parts, which are OV, ET and SRBs.

  2. All space shuttles are launched from Kennedy Space Centre.

  3. Orbiters are slaved down by aerobrakers.

  4. The outer surface of a space shuttle is made of platinum.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The outer surface of a space shuttle is not made of platinum.

Multiple choice

Which among the following is the first aircraft to fly around the world without refuelling?

  1. Challenger

  2. Colombia

  3. Discoverer

  4. Voyager

  5. Silverstone
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

The Rutan Voyager was the first aircraft to fly around the world without refueling in 1986. However, there's an error in the options - the question asks about the first non-stop flight, which was actually by a B-52 in 1957, but Voyager was the first without refueling (carrying all fuel onboard). The marked answer (Voyager) is correct for 'without refueling' in the sense of carrying all fuel from start.

Multiple choice

I am the most advanced development in communication technology. I am man made and I have an artificial body. I am used to collect information from other planets. Who am I?

  1. Planet

  2. Orbit

  3. Satellite

  4. Computer

  5. Aeroplane
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Satellites are the most advanced development in communication technology. These are man made and have an artificial body . It is used to collect information from other planets. This is the right answer.

Multiple choice

Select the correct chronological sequence of the following space shuttles of NASA in which they went into the space. a. Columbia b. Discovery c. Challenger d. Atlantis e. Endeavour

  1. c < a < b < d < e

  2. a < c < b < d < e

  3. c < b < a < e < d

  4. d < c < e < b < a
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The correct chronological order is Columbia (1981) < Challenger (1983) < Discovery (1984) < Atlantis (1985) < Endeavour (1992). Columbia was first, followed by Challenger's first flight, then Discovery, Atlantis, and finally Endeavour which was built to replace Challenger.

Multiple choice

Choose the correct option out in respect of happenings to astronauts in space.

  1. Their hair is in normal position as on the earth.

  2. They take proper food on dining table.

  3. They can take water in glass as we take on earth.

  4. Their feet do not stay on the floor.
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

As there is no gravity or negligible amount of gravity so we cannot stand in space, our feet don't stay on the floor.

Multiple choice

Consider the following statements:

  1. The unlucky APOLLO 13 lunar landing was canceled after the explosion of the oxygen tank.
  2. Phobos and Domos are the two largest satellites of the solar system.

Which of the given statements is/are correct?

  1. Only 1

  2. Only 2

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Neither 1 nor 2
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Statement 1 is correct. The unlucky APOLLO 13 lunar landing was canceled after the explosion of the oxygen tank. Statement 2 is incorrect. Phobos and Domos are the two smallest satellites of the solar system.

Multiple choice

Match the columns.

1. First man on the moon A. Laika
2. First animal in the space B. Valentina Tereshkowa
3. First person to walk in space C. Alexei Leonov
4. First woman in space D. Neil Armstrong

  1. 1 - D, 2 - C, 3 - A, 4 - B

  2. 1 - A, 2 - C, 3 - D, 4 - B

  3. 1 - D, 2 - A, 3 - C, 4 - B

  4. 1 - B, 2 - A, 3 - D, 4 - C

  5. 1 - A, 2 - B, 3 - C, 4 - D
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

This is a correct answer. Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the moon. First animal on moon was Laika. She was a stray dog launched by the Soviet Union in 1957. The first person who walk in space was Alexei Leonov.  He was the first person to conduct a spacewalk on March 18, 1965. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space, she flew Vostok 6 in 1963, spending almost three days in space.

Multiple choice

The first person to travel in space was

  1. Neel Armstrong

  2. Edger Barrows

  3. Eldrin

  4. Yuri Gagrin
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel into space on April 12, 1961, aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft. The Soviet cosmonaut completed one orbit around the Earth, making history with this revolutionary achievement.

Multiple choice

In which of the following phases of his mission to Moon could Neil Armstrong not hear any sound except for the sound produced by his headset?

  1. When he was training for weightless conditions submerged below the water surface in a water tank

  2. When he was training for the mission in high altitude test flights in very rarified atmosphere

  3. When he was actually travelling in the Saturn V rocket in space

  4. When he was walking on the surface of Moon
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Sound is a mechanical wave and needs a material medium like air, water, steel, etc. for its propagation, i.e. it cannot travel through vacuum. Thus, Neil Armstrong would not have been able to hear any sound except for his communication with mission control through his headset when he was walking on the surface of Moon as Moon has no atmosphere.