Exploring Our Solar System Quiz

Who was the first person to use a telescope to study the sky?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Brahe

True or False: Our understanding of the Solar System has changed over time.

• True

• False

Select two examples of a satellite from the list below.

• Apollo 11

• International Space Station

• Mars Rover

• Earth's Moon

What space vehicle is always unmanned, sent to space to gain information about the solar system, and will not return to Earth?

• Weather Balloons

• Space Shuttle

• Rockets

• Space Probe

Which of the following is a manned, reusable spacecraft?

• Space Shuttle

• Space Probe

• Weather Balloons

• Rockets

This uses fuel that repels in one direction pushing the space vehicle in the opposite direction to escape gravity.

• Space Probe

• Rocket

• Apollo Moon Land Rover

• International Space Station

True or False: The International Space Station is owned and operated by only the Russian Government. 

• True

• False

Which space technology, listed below, is a permanent laboratory that carries out experiments which is manned by astronauts from multiple countries. 

• Apollo 11

• Space Probe

• International Space Station

• Satellite #41690 DHC

True or False: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to be in  space.

• True

• False

The country to first put a satellite in our exosphere is __________ .

• USA

• Canada

• China

• 
  USSA/Soviet Union/Russia