Quiz #008 Difficulty: Easy Firsts in Space 1. Sputnik I was the first: 8. What was the first space station named? A) Rocket capable of reaching outer space A) Salyut 1 B) Artificial satellite B) Skylab S C) Lunar landing module C) Mir P 2. Who was the first human to fly in space? 9. Which mission had the first in-flight A A) Yuri Gagarin space fatality? B) Alan Shepard A) Space Shuttle Challenger C C) Gherman Titov B) Soyuz-1 C) Apollo 13 E 3. The first space explorer to perform an extravehicular activity (EVA or spacewalk) was from which country? Answers: H A) USSR 1. (B) Sputnik I was launched into orbit on B) USA October 4, 1957. C) China 2. (A) Yuri Gagarin, Vostok 1, 1961 I 3. (A) The first EVA was performed by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (Voskhod 2, S 4. Who was the first American to walk in 1965). space (EVA)? 4. (C) The first American EVA was T A) Bruce McCandless performed by Ed White, Gemini 4, 1965— B) Jim McDivitt a few months after Alexei Leonov. Bruce O C) McCandless is famous for performing the Ed White first untethered spacewalk. 5. (A) Tereshkova’s historic flight was on R 5. Who was the first woman to fly to space? Vostok 6 in 1963. It would be another 20 Y A) Valentina Tereshkova years before the first US woman (Sally B) Ride) flew. Liu Yang 6. (C) Onboard Shenzhou 5 (2003) C) Sally Ride 7. (B) Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission in 1962, during which he orbited the Earth C 6. Who was the first person the Chinese three times. space program launched into space? 8. (A) Salyut 1 was launched in 1971 and H destroyed just 175 days later when it was A) Fei Junlong intentionally de-orbited. B) Nie Haisheng 9. (B) This Soviet mission took place April A C) Yang Liwei 23-24, 1967, and killed the pilot and only L crew member, Colonel Vladimir Komarov. 7. Who was the first American to orbit L Earth? Sponsored by: SPADE Indexes LLC A) Buzz Aldrin E B) John Glenn N C) Alan Shepard G E™ Created by: SPACE 3.0 For more quizzes, visit us at: Released: July 2020 SpaceCommerce.org/challenge.