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Hint	Answer
Which astronaut did Tom hanks play in 'Apollo 13'	Jim Lovell
The car that was launched in the Falcon Heavy by SpaceX in 2018	Tesla Roadster
The spacecrafts that visited the outer planets, launched in 1977	Voyager
The astrophysicist that was deemed 'sexiest astrophysicist alive'	Neil DeGrasse Tyson
The rocket that was used in the Apollo program to send astronauts into the moon	Saturn V
The German turned American rocket scientist that created the rocket above	Wernher Von Braun
The greek counterpart of Neptune	Poseidon
The Soviet satellite that was launched in 1957, kickstarted the space race	Sputnik
Largest object in the asteroid belt	Ceres
First American woman in space	Sally Ride
The planet where Spock is from in 'Star Trek'	Vulcan
How many constellations are there?	88
The adjective for Jupiter	Jovian
Name given for planets orbiting other stars	exoplanet
The Saturnian moon that has a thick atmosphere and methane lakes	Titan
UFO stands for:	Unidentified flying object
The name of the Lunar Module of Apollo 11	Eagle
Actor played Mark Watney in 'The Martian'	Matt Damon

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The soviet space shuttle, flown once in 1988	Buran
The physicist that invented the reflecting telescope, also named after himself	Isaac Newton
The opening song of '2001 a space odysssy'	Also sprach Zarathustra
Closest galaxy that isn't the Milky Way's satellite	Andromeda Galaxy
Canadian astronaut that performed 'Space Oddity' in the ISS in 2013 and went viral	Chris Hadfield
The process in which black holes evaporates, named after famous physicist	Hawking radiation
Russian space station during 1986 - 2001, precursor to the ISS	Mir
The US president that created NASA	Dwight D. Eisenhower
The Nazi rocket that terrorised London and Antwerp in 1944 and 1945	V2
Astronomer who discovered 4 moons around Jupiter in 1610, debunked Aristotelian cosmology	Galileo Galilei
Closest star to our sun	Proxima centauri
The moons of Uranus are named after the characters in plays written by those writers	William Shakespeare
	Alexander Pope
Singer of 'Life on Mars' and 'Starman'	David Bowie
The galactic supercluster that we are in	Virgo Supercluster
The planet that the Death Star destroyed in 'Star Wars: A new hope'	Alderaan
The astronomer that hosted 'Cosmos: A personal voyage'	Carl Sagan
The space shuttle that exploded and killed 7 astronauts 1986	Challenger

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