Answer :- Ceres
2. NASA has been established in the year?
Answer :- 1958
3. Which is the first artificial satellite?
Answer :- Sputnik-I
4. Sputnik-I was launched by:
Answer :- Russia
5. Sputnik-I was launched in the year:
Answer :- 1957 October 4
6. Study about moon is called ______:
Answer :- Selenology
7. Second full moon in a month is called _______:
Answer :- Blue moon
8. Largest meteor fall on the surface of the
earth is _______:
Answer :- Hoba west
9. The only satellite which posses an atmosphere
is _______:
Answer :- Titan
10. Study about the origin and structure of
universe is _______:
Answer :- Cosmology
11. Who used the name asteroid first?
Answer :- William Hershel
12. Who stated "Universal law of
Gravitation"?
Answer :- Newton
13. Largest constellation in Milky Way is
_______:
Answer :- Hydra
14. Who first proposed the name "big bang
"?
Answer :- Fred Hoyle
15. Who proposed Big bang Theory?
Answer :- George Gamow
16. "A brief history of time",
"Universe in a nutshell "are the books written by:
Answer :- Stephen Hawking
17. Out of the following planets which do not
possesses a satellite?
(Mercury, Mars, Neptune,
Uranus)
Answer :- Mercury
18. Time required by Sun to make complete
revolution around the centre of Milky Way is called _______:
Answer :- Cosmic year
19. Who is known as the "Father of Indian
space research"?
Answer :- Vikram Sarabhai
20. The only planet on which the sun rises in
the west is ______:
Answer :- Venus
21. Which one is the farthest planet from the
sun?
(Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune)
Answer :- Neptune
22. Which is the first communication satellite
of the world?
Answer :- Echo
23. Which is the first Indian communication
satellite?
Answer :- APPLE
24. Who is the father of Space science?
Answer :- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
25. One Atsronomical Unit (IU) is the mean
distance between ______:
Answer :- Earth and sun
26. "A small step for a man, but a giant
leap for mankind"- who said?
Answer :- Neil Armstrong
27. Which spacecraft first landed on the Moon?
Answer :- Apollo 11
28. The period of revolution of a geostationary
satellite is ______:
Answer :- 24 hours
29. Where is the Indian Space Research
Organisation (ISN) situated?
Answer :- Bangalore
30. Where is the Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
(VSSC) situated?
Answer :- Thumba
31. Where is the Satish Dhawan Space Centre
situated?
Answer :- Sriharikota
32. Bodies which usually fall from the sky on
the earth are called _____:
Answer :- Meteors
33. Halley's comet appears after every _____:
Answer :- 76 years
34. Who became the world's first private woman
space tourist in September 2006?
Answer :- Anoushe Ansari
35. The first Indian to be selected as a space
tourist:
Answer :- Santhosh George Kulangara
36. India's first Remote Sensing Satellite:
Answer :- IRS-IA
37. The satellite launched exclusively for
getting three dimensional maps: Answer :- CARTOSAT
38. The comet which is known as comet of the
century?
Answer :- Hale Bopp
39. India's first artificial satellite?
Answer :- Aryabhatta
40. India's first satellite launched for
meteorological purposes:
Answer :- Kalpana-I
41. Equatorial diameter of earth is ______:
Answer :- 12754km
42. Who first stated that the Universe is
expanding?
Answer :- Edwin Hubble
43. The mass of the white dwarf is ______:
Answer :- less than 1.44 times the mass of the
sun
44. The first rocket launching station in India
_______:
Answer :- TERLS
45. "Orion "is a ______:
Answer :- Nebula
46. The first space tourist is ______:
Answer :- Dennis Tito
47. India's first atsronaut is _______:
Answer :- Rakesh Sharma
48. Asteroid belt is situated in between:
Answer :- Mars and Jupiter
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