World Famous Astronauts MCQs with Answers
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
a) Neil Armstrong
b) Buzz Aldrin
c) Yuri Gagarin
d) Alan Shepard
Answer: a) Neil Armstrong
Who was the first American woman to travel to space?
a) Sally Ride
b) Valentina Tereshkova
c) Eileen Collins
d) Peggy Whitson
Answer: a) Sally Ride
Who was the first person to orbit the Earth?
a) Yuri Gagarin
b) Neil Armstrong
c) John Glenn
d) Alan Shepard
Answer: a) Yuri Gagarin
Who was the first American to orbit the Earth?
a) John Glenn
b) Yuri Gagarin
c) Neil Armstrong
d) Alan Shepard
Answer: a) John Glenn
Who was the first woman to walk in space?
a) Svetlana Savitskaya
b) Valentina Tereshkova
c) Peggy Whitson
d) Eileen Collins
Answer: a) Svetlana Savitskaya
Who was the first American to perform a spacewalk?
a) Ed White
b) Alexei Leonov
c) Michael Collins
d) Bruce McCandless
Answer: a) Ed White
Who was the first astronaut to fly in space multiple times?
a) John Young
b) Gus Grissom
c) Alan Shepard
d) Yuri Gagarin
Answer: a) John Young
Who was the first African-American astronaut in space?
a) Guion Bluford
b) Mae Jemison
c) Ronald McNair
d) Charlie Bolden
Answer: a) Guion Bluford
Who was the first Canadian astronaut in space?
a) Marc Garneau
b) Chris Hadfield
c) Roberta Bondar
d) Julie Payette
Answer: a) Marc Garneau
Who was the first British astronaut in space?
a) Helen Sharman
b) Tim Peake
c) Michael Foale
d) Nicholas Patrick
Answer: a) Helen Sharman
Who was the first Japanese astronaut in space?
a) Mamoru Mohri
b) Koichi Wakata
c) Chiaki Mukai
d) Soichi Noguchi
Answer: a) Mamoru Mohri
Who was the first Indian astronaut in space?
a) Rakesh Sharma
b) Kalpana Chawla
c) Sunita Williams
d) Abdul Kalam
Answer: a) Rakesh Sharma
Who was the first woman to command a space shuttle mission?
a) Eileen Collins
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Sunita Williams
d) Susan Helms
Answer: a) Eileen Collins
Who was the first person to fly in space multiple times on different space shuttles?
a) John Young
b) Robert Crippen
c) Story Musgrave
d) Michael Foale
Answer: a) John Young
Who was the first woman to perform a spacewalk?
a) Svetlana Savitskaya
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Valentina Tereshkova
d) Eileen Collins
Answer: a) Svetlana Savitskaya
Who was the first American woman to command a space shuttle mission?
a) Eileen Collins
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Mae Jemison
d) Susan Helms
Answer: a) Eileen Collins
Who was the first person to spend a year in space?
a) Scott Kelly
b) Valeri Polyakov
c) Sergei Krikalev
d) Michael Lopez-Alegria
Answer: a) Scott Kelly
Who was the first Chinese astronaut in space?
a) Yang Liwei
b) Liu Yang
c) Fei Junlong
d) Nie Haisheng
Answer: a) Yang Liwei
Who was the first American to spend a continuous year in space?
a) Scott Kelly
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Christina Koch
d) Michael Lopez-Alegria
Answer: a) Scott Kelly
Who was the first person to fly in space as a tourist?
a) Dennis Tito
b) Anousheh Ansari
c) Richard Garriott
d) Mark Shuttleworth
Answer: a) Dennis Tito
Who was the first woman from South Korea to travel to space?
a) Yi So-yeon
b) Anousheh Ansari
c) Soyeon Shin
d) Kimiya Yui
Answer: a) Yi So-yeon
Who was the first person from the United Arab Emirates to travel to space?
a) Hazza Al Mansouri
b) Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
c) Sultan Al Neyadi
d) Noura Al Matrooshi
Answer: a) Hazza Al Mansouri
Who was the first person to walk in space outside of the Earth’s magnetosphere?
a) Bruce McCandless
b) Alexei Leonov
c) Michael Collins
d) Thomas Pesquet
Answer: a) Bruce McCandless
Who was the first American woman to perform a spacewalk?
a) Kathryn Sullivan
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Eileen Collins
d) Christina Koch
Answer: a) Kathryn Sullivan
Who was the first person to fly in space for a second time after a gap of more than 20 years?
a) John Glenn
b) Story Musgrave
c) Charles Duke
d) Scott Carpenter
Answer: a) John Glenn
Who was the first American astronaut to perform a spacewalk?
a) Ed White
b) Buzz Aldrin
c) Alan Shepard
d) Michael Collins
Answer: a) Ed White
Who was the first woman from the United States to walk in space?
a) Kathryn Sullivan
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Eileen Collins
d) Christina Hammock Koch
Answer: a) Kathryn Sullivan
Who was the first person to fly in space after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?
a) John Young
b) Story Musgrave
c) Charles Bolden
d) Michael J. Smith
Answer: a) John Young
Who was the first American woman to perform a long-duration spaceflight?
a) Shannon Lucid
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Eileen Collins
d) Sunita Williams
Answer: a) Shannon Lucid
Who was the first person to fly in space as a private citizen?
a) Dennis Tito
b) Mark Shuttleworth
c) Anousheh Ansari
d) Richard Garriott
Answer: a) Dennis Tito
Who was the first Canadian woman to travel to space?
a) Roberta Bondar
b) Chris Hadfield
c) Julie Payette
d) David Saint-Jacques
Answer: a) Roberta Bondar
Who was the first American woman to perform a spacewalk?
a) Kathryn Sullivan
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Eileen Collins
d) Christina Koch
Answer: a) Kathryn Sullivan
Who was the first person to spend a continuous year in space on the International Space Station?
a) Scott Kelly
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Christina Koch
d) Sergey Prokopyev
Answer: a) Scott Kelly
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon after Neil Armstrong?
a) Buzz Aldrin
b) Pete Conrad
c) Alan Bean
d) Charles Duke
Answer: a) Buzz Aldrin
Who was the first astronaut to command a Space Shuttle mission?
a) John Young
b) Robert Crippen
c) Fred Haise
d) Charles Bolden
Answer: a) John Young
Who was the first woman to command the International Space Station?
a) Peggy Whitson
b) Sunita Williams
c) Christina Hammock Koch
d) Samantha Cristoforetti
Answer: a) Peggy Whitson
Who was the first astronaut from France to travel to space?
a) Jean-Loup Chrétien
b) Claudie Haigneré
c) Thomas Pesquet
d) Philippe Perrin
Answer: a) Jean-Loup Chrétien
Who was the first person to fly in space after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster?
a) Eileen Collins
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Charles Bolden
d) Alan Bean
Answer: a) Eileen Collins
Who was the first astronaut from Italy to travel to space?
a) Franco Malerba
b) Umberto Guidoni
c) Samantha Cristoforetti
d) Luca Parmitano
Answer: a) Franco Malerba
Who was the first African-American woman to travel to space?
a) Mae Jemison
b) Jeanette Epps
c) Stephanie Wilson
d) Joan Higginbotham
Answer: a) Mae Jemison
Who was the first astronaut from Germany to travel to space?
a) Ulf Merbold
b) Reinhold Ewald
c) Thomas Reiter
d) Alexander Gerst
Answer: a) Ulf Merbold
Who was the first astronaut from Belgium to travel to space?
a) Dirk Frimout
b) Frank De Winne
c) André Kuipers
d) Claude Nicollier
Answer: a) Dirk Frimout
Who was the first astronaut from South Africa to travel to space?
a) Mark Shuttleworth
b) Elon Musk
c) Wally Funk
d) Mike Melvill
Answer: a) Mark Shuttleworth
Who was the first woman from the United States to spend a continuous year in space?
a) Christina Koch
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Shannon Lucid
d) Jessica Meir
Answer: a) Christina Koch
Who was the first astronaut to fly in space after the retirement of the Space Shuttle program?
a) Doug Hurley
b) Bob Behnken
c) Chris Cassidy
d) Mike Hopkins
Answer: a) Doug Hurley
Who was the first astronaut from Luxembourg to travel to space?
a) Marc Schaus
b) Charles Duke
c) David Mackay
d) Richard Garriott
Answer: a) Marc Schaus
Who was the first woman from the United States to perform a spacewalk?
a) Kathryn Sullivan
b) Peggy Whitson
c) Eileen Collins
d) Christina Hammock Koch
Answer: a) Kathryn Sullivan
Who was the first astronaut to fly in space from the European Space Agency (ESA)?
a) Ulf Merbold
b) Jean-François Clervoy
c) Samantha Cristoforetti
d) André Kuipers
Answer: a) Ulf Merbold
Who was the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates to travel to space?
a) Hazza Al Mansouri
b) Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
c) Sultan Al Neyadi
d) Noura Al Matrooshi
Answer: a) Hazza Al Mansouri
Who was the first astronaut from Spain to travel to space?
a) Pedro Duque
b) Michael López-Alegría
c) Leopold Eyharts
d) Miguel López-Alegría
Answer: a) Pedro Duque
Who was the first astronaut from Sweden to travel to space?
a) Christer Fuglesang
b) Hans Schlegel
c) Claude Nicollier
d) Robert Thirsk
Answer: a) Christer Fuglesang
Who was the first person to fly in space after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?
a) John Young
b) Story Musgrave
c) Charles Bolden
d) Michael J. Smith
Answer: a) John Young
Who was the first astronaut from Denmark to travel to space?
a) Andreas Mogensen
b) Frank De Winne
c) Jean-François Clervoy
d) Thomas Pesquet
Answer: a) Andreas Mogensen
Who was the first astronaut from Brazil to travel to space?
a) Marcos Pontes
b) Carlos Noriega
c) Paolo Nespoli
d) Alexander Gerst
Answer: a) Marcos Pontes
Who was the first astronaut from Austria to travel to space?
a) Franz Viehböck
b) Johann-Dietrich Wörner
c) Matthias Maurer
d) Thomas Pesquet
Answer: a) Franz Viehböck
Who was the first astronaut from the Netherlands to travel to space?
a) Wubbo Ockels
b) André Kuipers
c) Wally Funk
d) Mike Melvill
Answer: a) Wubbo Ockels
Who was the first astronaut from Poland to travel to space?
a) Mirosław Hermaszewski
b) Jerzy Dobrzycki
c) Władysław Andrzejewski
d) Wojciech Jaruzelski
Answer: a) Mirosław Hermaszewski
Who was the first astronaut from Saudi Arabia to travel to space?
a) Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
b) Hazza Al Mansouri
c) Sultan Al Neyadi
d) Noura Al Matrooshi
Answer: a) Sultan bin Salman Al Saud
Who was the first astronaut from Norway to travel to space?
a) Bjarni Tryggvason
b) Nils Olav Østby
c) Tom Hanks
d) Aleksander Aleksandrov
Answer: a) Bjarni Tryggvason
Who was the first astronaut from Ireland to travel to space?
a) Michael P. Anderson
b) Christopher Ferguson
c) Garrett Reisman
d) George Michael
Answer: a) Michael P. Anderson