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Quiz on NASA

20 questions · June 25, 2026

Below is the full Quizmo quiz devoted to the theme "NASA": each question, its four options, the correct answer highlighted and, where available, its source. A chance to brush up on your general knowledge and then test what you know.

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Question 1

Easy

Which NASA program first landed humans on the Moon?

Source: Gemini and Mercury were the warm-up acts; Apollo carried the crews that actually walked on the Moon.

Question 2

Easy

Which planet did NASA's Curiosity rover explore?

Source: Curiosity has been roaming the red Martian surface since 2012, drilling rocks to hunt for signs of ancient life.

Question 3

Easy

Which famous space telescope did NASA launch in 1990?

Source: Hubble launched in 1990 with a flawed mirror, fixed by spacewalking astronauts — Webb didn't fly until decades later, in 2021.

Question 4

Easy

What is the name of the international laboratory orbiting Earth that NASA helps operate?

Source: The ISS circles Earth every 90 minutes; Skylab and Mir were earlier stations, and Tiangong is China's.

Question 5

Easy

In which US state is NASA's main astronaut training and Mission Control located?

Source: "Houston, we have a problem" — Mission Control sits at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, not at the Florida launch pads.

Question 6

Easy

Which rocket launched the Apollo astronauts toward the Moon?

Source: The Saturn V remains the most powerful rocket ever flown to operational success — taller than the Statue of Liberty.

Question 7

Easy

What was the name of NASA's reusable spacecraft retired in 2011?

Source: The Space Shuttle flew 135 missions over 30 years before NASA grounded the fleet — Soyuz and Dragon are Russian and SpaceX craft.

Question 8

Easy

What is NASA's current program aiming to return humans to the Moon?

Source: Artemis is named after Apollo's twin sister — fittingly, it aims to land the first woman on the Moon.

Question 9

Easy

What does the first 'A' in the acronym NASA stand for?

Source: NASA is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration — aeronautics (aircraft) came first, before space was even in the picture.

Question 10

Easy

Which two space agencies primarily crew the International Space Station?

Source: Despite earthly tensions, American NASA and Russian Roscosmos have kept the station running side by side for over two decades.

Question 11

Medium

What disaster struck NASA's space program on January 28, 1986?

Source: Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after launch due to a failed O-ring seal stiffened by unusually cold Florida weather.

Question 12

Medium

Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?

Source: Glenn orbited in 1962; Shepard had only flown a brief suborbital hop the year before. Glenn returned to space at age 77.

Question 13

Medium

Which NASA telescope, launched in 2021, observes mainly in infrared light?

Source: Webb's giant gold-coated mirror sees infrared to peer through cosmic dust and back toward the universe's first galaxies.

Question 14

Medium

Which NASA probe became the first to leave the solar system in 2012?

Source: Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 crossed into interstellar space carrying its famous golden record of Earth's sounds.

Question 15

Medium

What allowed the crippled Apollo 13 crew to survive their journey home?

Source: With the command module dying, the crew turned the lunar lander into a makeshift lifeboat to limp back to Earth.

Question 16

Medium

Which spacecraft carried the first humans to orbit the Moon in 1968?

Source: Apollo 8 didn't land but circled the Moon, giving us the iconic 'Earthrise' photo a year before Armstrong's footsteps.

Question 17

Medium

What ended NASA's Apollo program after its final lunar mission?

Source: Public interest and funding dried up — Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were cancelled even though the hardware was largely built.

Question 18

Hard

Which NASA mission deliberately crashed a spacecraft to alter an asteroid's orbit?

Source: In 2022 DART slammed into asteroid Dimorphos, proving humanity could nudge a space rock off course — a planetary-defense first.

Question 19

Hard

What was the name of the command module pilot who orbited alone during Apollo 11?

Source: While Armstrong and Aldrin walked below, Collins circled the Moon solo — often called the loneliest human in history.

Question 20

Hard

Which German-born engineer led the design of NASA's Saturn V rocket?

Source: Von Braun built rockets for Nazi Germany before becoming the chief architect of America's path to the Moon.

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