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

The first man who entered into space

  1. Yuri Gagarin

  2. Neil Amstrong

  3. Tereskova

  4. Leonav
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.

Multiple choice

The first man who entered into space was

  1. Leonav

  2. Yuri Gagarin

  3. Rakesh Sharma

  4. Neil Amstrong
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, became the first human to journey into outer space on April 12, 1961.

Multiple choice

Directions: Select the most appropriate filler(s) for the blank(s) such that the sentence makes coherent sense.

The Hubble Telescope should be ________ even if that means diverting the shuttle from other tasks and slowing plans to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars.

  1. cloistered

  2. winked at

  3. squired

  4. preserved

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

NASA's most important scientific instrument, the Hubble space telescope would begin to fail a few years from now, hence this sentence emphasizes on its need to preserve this instrument. The clue comes from the word 'even', the clause that follows it provides an explanation to the blank. This implies that though tough tasks have to be undertaken, Hubble Telescope has to be preserved. 'Kippered' is to cure (herring, salmon, etc.) by cleaning, salting, and drying or smoking, thus (5) is ruled out. Hence, (4) is the answer.

Multiple choice

What was the Space Race?

Directions: The passage is followed by five questions. Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows. For the question four probable answers bearing options (1), (2), (3) and (4) are given. Only one out of those is correct. You have to choose the correct answer.

The Space Race began in the 1950s. It was the time of the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union fought for technological superiority. Each country wanted to prove that its political and economic system was better. Both superpowers wanted to launch the first satellite and put a human being into space. To the shock of the US, the Soviets had beaten them in the first phase of the Space Race. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human sent into Earth's orbit, only a month before American astronaut Alan Shepard was launched into space.

  1. To run races in the space

  2. To take the first satellite and human being into space

  3. To shock each other

  4. To prove other country inferior
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

‘Both superpowers wanted to launch (set in motion) the first satellite and put a human being into space’.

Multiple choice

‘Both superpowers’ means

Directions: The passage is followed by five questions. Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows. For the question four probable answers bearing options (1), (2), (3) and (4) are given. Only one out of those is correct. You have to choose the correct answer.

The Space Race began in the 1950s. It was the time of the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union fought for technological superiority. Each country wanted to prove that its political and economic system was better. Both superpowers wanted to launch the first satellite and put a human being into space. To the shock of the US, the Soviets had beaten them in the first phase of the Space Race. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human sent into Earth's orbit, only a month before American astronaut Alan Shepard was launched into space.

  1. Two countries

  2. Two powerful persons

  3. Two powerful groups

  4. Two powerful satellites
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Both superpowers, i.e. the United States and the Soviet Union. So, option 1 is correct.

Multiple choice

Orbit means

Directions: The passage is followed by five questions. Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows. For the question four probable answers bearing options (1), (2), (3) and (4) are given. Only one out of those is correct. You have to choose the correct answer.

The Space Race began in the 1950s. It was the time of the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union fought for technological superiority. Each country wanted to prove that its political and economic system was better. Both superpowers wanted to launch the first satellite and put a human being into space. To the shock of the US, the Soviets had beaten them in the first phase of the Space Race. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human sent into Earth's orbit, only a month before American astronaut Alan Shepard was launched into space.

  1. a path in the space

  2. a race track

  3. a satellite

  4. a space traveler
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

‘Earth's Orbit’ means ‘a fixed path in the space around earth’.

Multiple choice

How did the Soviets beat US in the first phase?

Directions: The passage is followed by five questions. Read the passage carefully and answer the question that follows. For the question four probable answers bearing options (1), (2), (3) and (4) are given. Only one out of those is correct. You have to choose the correct answer.

The Space Race began in the 1950s. It was the time of the Cold War, in which the United States and the Soviet Union fought for technological superiority. Each country wanted to prove that its political and economic system was better. Both superpowers wanted to launch the first satellite and put a human being into space. To the shock of the US, the Soviets had beaten them in the first phase of the Space Race. In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human sent into Earth's orbit, only a month before American astronaut Alan Shepard was launched into space.

  1. American astronaut was launched into space

  2. Yuri Gagarin was the first to be sent into space

  3. Alan Shepard lived in the space for a month

  4. The Soviets tried to shock the US
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

The Soviets had beaten them (U.S) in the first phase of the Space Race. 'In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human sent into Earth's orbit.' 

Multiple choice

Which is the world's the first green ship?

  1. Auriga Leader

  2. Amanda Lauder

  3. Avid Morris

  4. Alen Moons
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The Auriga Leader, launched in 2008, is widely recognized as the world's first car carrier ship to use solar power, making it a pioneer in green shipping.

Multiple choice

The Big Bang recreation experiment was started at ……. on September 10, 008?

  1. NASA

  2. VSSC

  3. ISRO

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

The Big Bang recreation experiment refers to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), which began operations on September 10, 2008. The LHC is the world's largest particle accelerator designed to simulate conditions just after the Big Bang. NASA is a space agency, VSSC and ISRO are Indian space organizations - none conducted this particle physics experiment.