Unmanned Space Travel

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1. What was the first man-made object to reach the moon? Luna 4 Luna 2 Ranger 6 Ranger 3

2. What was the first man-made object to leave the solar system? Voyager 1 Pioneer 5 Voyager 2 Pioneer 10

3. What were the first two man-made objects to touch the Martian surface? Viking 1 and Viking 2 Mars 2 and Mars 3 Ranger 7 and Ranger 8 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

4. What was the name of the US Mars lander missions of the 1970s? Viking Vega Voyager Veritas

5. What was the first probe to land on another planet and transmit data to Earth? Venera 7 Viking 1 Mars 3 Huygens

6. What two comets did the European probe Giotto encounter? Grigg-Skjellerup and Halley Kahoutek and Hyakutake Halle-Bopp and Halley Kahoutek and Halle-Bopp

7. What was new about the Ulysses mission around the Sun? It is designed to study the Sun from all latitudes rather than just equatorially It wasn't designed to go to the Sun It was the first to land on the Sun It was to orbit between Mercury and the Sun

8. Toward what body was the probe New Horizons launched in 2006? Sedna Neptune Pluto Eris

9. What is the name of the US unmanned mission that visited all four of the outer planets in the solar system? Mariner 6 Voyager 1 Voyager 2 Pioneer 11

10. What deep space probes were launched in 1977 carrying a record containing "The Rite of Spring", "The Brandenburg Concerto", and "Johny B. Goode" among other pieces of music? Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 Veritas 14 and Veritas 17 Ranger 6 and Ranger 8

11. What is the name of the Chinese unmanned program to the Moon? Meng Po Guan Yin Mazu Chang'e

12. What was the name of the first Japanese probe to verifiably orbit the Moon? Ginga Hiten AKARI SELENE

13. What planet did the Magellan probe radar map? Mars Venus Jupiter Earth

14. What was the first unmanned craft to orbit Jupiter? Galileo Cassini Kepler Voyager 2

15. Which moon of Saturn did the Huygens probe investigate? Mimas Titan Rhea Dione