KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Interplanetary probes fly by celestial bodies. Orbiters are placed in orbit around a celestial body. Landers land on the surface of a celestial body.

Detailed explanation-2: -Star Wars would have you believe that the greatest challenges to space travel is asteroids, lack of resources like water or fuel, or even the threat of unfriendly, intelligent alien life. But in reality, scientists are finding that the biggest obstacle to today’s space travel is dust. Yes, space dust.

Detailed explanation-3: -Who has travelled to space? Space flight is now a venerable industry. Humanity’s first space explorer, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, orbited around the globe on 12 April 1961, more than half a century ago, when Britain remained a colonial power and people were still using halfpennies to buy their fish and chips.