Space travel

They started building the International Space Station (ISS) in ___.

• 1961

• 1966

• 1969

• 1998

In space, an astronaut spends ___ hour(s) every day doing exercise.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

On the International Space Station astronauts work for ___ hours every day.

• 8

• 10

• 12

• 14

The Russian, Yuri Gagarin, was the first man in space in ___ .

• 1934

• 1951

• 1961

• 1968

Spaceships fly around the Earth at more than ___ km per hour.

• 1,236

• 12,360

• 27,000

• 270,000

___ women astronauts have flown into space (as of March 2023).

• 6

• 36

• 60

• 72

In ___ the Russian astronaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in

space.

• 1961

• 1963

• 1966

• 1969

Space shuttles need ___ million litres of fuel to launch into space.

• 1.9

• 2.3

• 2.9

• 3.1

Until now there have been ___ human spaceflight launches (as of March 2023).

• 157

• 218

• 368

• 416

In ___ scientists sent fruit flies into space.

• 1947

• 1949

• 1961

• 1966