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Space Exploration for Experts

Some tougher questions for diehard "Spaceophiles"
* Gus Grissom was assigned to the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo projects, but only flew in the first two.
** The USSR's Mars 3 probe soft landed on Mars in 1971 but failed 15 seconds later
*** With apologies to Pink Floyd, "Dark Side of the Moon" is a misnomer
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Last updated: October 27, 2019
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The only Mercury astronaut who did not fly a Mercury mission
Donald "Deke" Slayton
Instead, that astronaut flew on this mission (1975)
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Performed history's first spacewalk (USSR 1965)
Alexei Leonov
Performed history's second spacewalk (USA 1965)
Ed White
Apollo 12 astronauts landed within 200 meters (657 feet) of this earlier, unmanned lander (1969)
Surveyor 3
The only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions*
Wally Schirra
The only astronaut to fly Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle missions
John Young
The only Mercury astronaut to walk on the moon (1971)
Alan Shepard
The only astronaut to fly both Mercury and Space Shuttle missions
John Glenn
Three astronauts have flown to the Moon twice. Only one did not walk on its surface
Jim Lovell
First female cosmonaut (1963)
Valentina Tereshkova
First female astronaut (1983)
Sally Ride
In lunar orbit since 2009, this satellite has photographed all of the Apollo landing sites and much more
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)
First successful Mars landers (1976)**
Viking 1 & 2
First robotic rover deployed on Mars (1997)
Sojourner
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These twin Mars rovers operated for years beyond their original 90-day mission plans (2004 - )
Spirit and Opporunity
This Soviet program returned photos (and sound!) from the surface of Venus
Venera
Soviet robotic lunar rover and soil sample return program
Lunokhod
China's unmanned Chang'e-4 mission was the first to land here (2019) ***
Far side of the Moon
This nuclear powered Mars rover has been operating there since 2012
Curiosity
Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in 1974. This spacecraft was the first to go into orbit around that planet (2011)
MESSENGER
These twin spacecraft performed the first Jupiter flyby missions (1973, 1974)
Pioneer 1 & 2
This mission was the first to flyby an asteroid (1991) and later orbited Jupiter and its moons for 8 years
Galileo
Launched in 1977, this spacecraft visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and is still sending back data from interstellar space
Voyager 2
This spacecraft flew by Pluto and its moons in 2015 and the ancient Kuiper Belt object, Ultima Thule, in 2018
New Horizons
This joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) mission was the first to orbit Saturn (2004)
Cassini
That mission delivered this ESA-built lander to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon
Huygens
This spacecraft used its ion engine to orbit the asteroids Vesta (2011) and Ceres (2015)
Dawn
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon. This astronaut was the last... so far (1972)
Gene Cernan
Named for a Peanuts cartoon character, the ascent stage of Apollo 10's Lunar Module has been orbiting the Sun since 1969
Snoopy
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