KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Valentina Tereshkova
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Sally Ride
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -On 16 June 1963, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. The launch took place at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan-the spaceport for both Sputnik 1, and Vostok 1, the first human spaceflight .
Detailed explanation-2: -Sally Ride (1951-2012) | NASA Astronaut / First American Woman in Space – NASA Solar System Exploration.
Detailed explanation-3: -Yuri Gagarin from the Soviet Union was the first human in space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27, 400 kilometers per hour with the flight lasting 108 minutes. Vostok’s reentry was controlled by a computer. Unlike the early U.S. human spaceflight programs, Gagarin did not land inside of capsule.