Unmanned Space Travel

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

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? Veritas Voyager Viking Vega

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

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

7. What was new about the Ulysses mission around the Sun? It was to orbit between Mercury and the Sun It was the first to land on 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

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

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

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? Chang'e Mazu Meng Po Guan Yin

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

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

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

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