Women in Space Quiz
- Question: Which astronaut was the first woman to study aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College?
- Answer: Kalpana Chawla was the first woman to study aeronautical engineering at Punjab Engineering College. She first flew on the Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator.
- Question: Who was the first woman to perform a spacewalk?
- Answer: Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a spacewalk in 1984.
- Question: How many times did Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova orbit the Earth in 71 hours?
- Answer: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova orbited the Earth 48 times in 71 hours in 1963.
- Question: Who was the first woman to go into space?
- Answer: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go into space 1963.
- Question: Who was the first African American woman astronaut?
- Answer: Mae Jemison was the first African American woman astronaut. In 1992 she spent more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour.
- Question: Who was the first Chinese woman in space?
- Answer: Liu Yang became the first Chinese woman in space in 2012.
- Question: What year did Sally Ride become the first American woman to enter space?
- Answer: In 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman to enter space while rocketing into orbit aboard the shuttle orbiter Challenger.
- Question: Who was the first American woman to walk in space?
- Answer: Kathryn Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space.
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