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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The only astronaut to fly both Mercury and Space Shuttle missions	John Glenn	83%
Launched in 1977, this spacecraft visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune and is still sending back data from interstellar space	Voyager 2	67%
The only Mercury astronaut to walk on the moon (1971)	Alan Shepard	58%
First female cosmonaut (1963)	Valentina Tereshkova	58%
This mission was the first to flyby an asteroid (1991) and later orbited Jupiter and its moons for 8 years	Galileo	50%
This nuclear powered Mars rover has been operating there since 2012	Curiosity	42%
First successful Mars landers (1976)**	Viking 1 & 2	42%
Three astronauts have flown to the Moon twice. Only one did not walk on its surface	Jim Lovell	33%
First female astronaut (1983)	Sally Ride	33%
Named for a Peanuts cartoon character, the ascent stage of Apollo 10's Lunar Module has been orbiting the Sun since 1969	Snoopy	33%
These twin Mars rovers operated for years beyond their original 90-day mission plans (2004 - )	Spirit and Opporunity	33%
This Soviet program returned photos (and sound!) from the surface of Venus	Venera	33%
Performed history's first spacewalk (USSR 1965)	Alexei Leonov	25%
Instead, that astronaut flew on this mission (1975)	Apollo-Soyuz Test Project	25%
This joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) mission was the first to orbit Saturn (2004)	Cassini	25%
The only Mercury astronaut who did not fly a Mercury mission	Donald "Deke" Slayton	25%
Performed history's second spacewalk (USA 1965)	Ed White	25%
This spacecraft flew by Pluto and its moons in 2015 and the ancient Kuiper Belt object, Ultima Thule, in 2018	New Horizons	25%
These twin spacecraft performed the first Jupiter flyby missions (1973, 1974)	Pioneer 1 & 2	25%
China's unmanned Chang'e-4 mission was the first to land here (2019) ***	Far side of the Moon	17%
That mission delivered this ESA-built lander to the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon	Huygens	17%
The only astronaut to fly Gemini, Apollo and Space Shuttle missions	John Young	17%
First robotic rover deployed on Mars (1997)	Sojourner	17%
The only astronaut to fly Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions*	Wally Schirra	17%
Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon. This astronaut was the last... so far (1972)	Gene Cernan	8%
Soviet robotic lunar rover and soil sample return program	Lunokhod	8%
Mariner 10 flew by Mercury in 1974. This spacecraft was the first to go into orbit around that planet (2011)	MESSENGER	8%
Apollo 12 astronauts landed within 200 meters (657 feet) of this earlier, unmanned lander (1969)	Surveyor 3	8%
This spacecraft used its ion engine to orbit the asteroids Vesta (2011) and Ceres (2015)	Dawn	0%
In lunar orbit since 2009, this satellite has photographed all of the Apollo landing sites and much more	Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)	0%