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.

Space shuttle missionsArtificial satellitesLunar and planetary landingsSpace telescopes and observatories

Space Exploration and Astronomy Questions

Multiple choice

What is a space shuttle?

  1. Spaceship

  2. ship

  3. airplane

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

A space shuttle is a reusable spacecraft designed to carry people and cargo into space.

Multiple choice

Who is an astronaut

  1. A person who stays in space

  2. A person who does a research about space

  3. A person who cooks food

  4. A person trained to travel into space
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

An astronaut is a person trained to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft.

Multiple choice

Which NASA mission most recently landed on Mars?

  1. Perseverance

  2. Insight

  3. Pathfinder

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

Perseverance is the most recent major NASA rover mission to land on Mars, arriving in February 2021. Pathfinder, Viking, and Insight landed significantly earlier.

Multiple choice

What is the full form of NASA?

  1. National Aerodynamics and Space Association

  2. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program and aeronautics research.

Multiple choice

Who was the first person to reach space?

  1. Neil Armstrong

  2. Yuri Gagarin

  3. Buzz Aldrin

  4. Vladimir Putin
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 geography space travel space research and satellites space exploration and forms of light optical telescope

Salyut 6 and Salyut 7, were built with:

  1. three docking ports

  2. two docking ports

  3. five docking ports

  4. No docking ports
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Salyut 6 and Salyut 7 were the second generation of the Salyut programme which was the first space station programme undertaken by the Soviet Union. They both were built with two docking ports, one on either end of the station.