1. Name the first human to go into space and what was his nationality.
2. Name the spacecraft which took the first human into space on this date and what does its name mean?
3. In the context of the above flight, who were Gherman Titov and Grigori Nelyubov?
4. If the term Cosmonaut is used for Russian space-farers, what terms are used for Americans and Japanese space-farers?
5. Exactly 20 years after the first flight, the U.S. launched the first Space Shuttle on April 12, 1981. What was it called?
6. What distinctions do Valentina Tereshkova and Alan Sheppard hold?
7. In 1953, Georges Remi, writing under his pen-name, put his comic book heroes on a journey to the moon. How do we better know the author and name the adventure.
8. Name the only other country, apart from the U.S. and Russia (or then USSR), to have independent human spaceflight capability at the moment.
9. What has been the farthest destination for a human spaceflight mission?
10. Name the pioneering Indian cosmonaut who made a space trip in April 1984.
11. In 1965, Alexey Leonov boldly did what no human had not done before. What was it?
12. Many of us would love to visit space. But name the first space tourist who did so in 2003.
13. January 28, 1986, and February 1, 2003, are tragic days in human spaceflight history. How?
14. What historic picture was first taken by Bill Anders, the Apollo 8 Lunar module pilot, in 1968.
15. The largest and most sophisticated operational launch vehicle ever produced took humans to the moon in 1969. After which Roman God was it named?
Answers: 1.Yuri Gagarin was a Russian cosmonaut; 2. Vostok I. Vostok means ‘east' in Russian; 3. They were the primary and secondary backup cosmonauts; 4. Astronaut and Taikonaut; 5. Columbia; 6. They were the first woman and American respectively to go into space; 7. Herge (creator of Tintin) and ‘Destination Moon'; 8. China; 9. The Moon; 10. Rakesh Sharma; 11. Walked in space; 12. Dennis Tito; 13. The ‘Challenger' and ‘Columbia' space shuttle disasters; 14. The beautiful colourful shot of an ‘Earthrise'; 15 Saturn (Saturn V).
