SPACE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

               SPACE  QUESTIONS  AND ANSWERS              

 Que. - Who took the first spacewalk?

Ans. - The cosmonaut (Russian astronaut) Alexei Leonov took a ten-minute spacewalk on 18^th  March 1965. To make sure he did not float off, Leonov tied himself to his capsule.

Que.2. - Who was the first women in space?

Ans. - The first women in space was Russian. Valentina Tereshkova made a three day journey in Vostok6 In 1963. The first American woman in space was Sally Ride, in 1983.

Que.3. - Who was the first man to travel in space?

Ans. - A young Russian pilot called Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space. He orbited the Earth in a small capsule called Vostak1 on 12 April 1961. His journey lasted less than two hours.

Que.4. - Which planet was found by accident?

Ans. - Uranus was discovered in 1781. The man, who found it, William Herschel, was not expecting to find a planet at all. He thought he was pointing his homemade telescope at a distance star.

Que.5. - What are Mar’s moons like?

Ans. - Mars’s two tiny moons, Deimos and Phobos, are not round like our Moon. They look more like baked potatoes! They might have been asteroids (space rocks) that Mars captured with his gravity.

Que.6. - How hot is the Sun?

Ans. - In deserts here on Earth, heat that has travelled 150 million km. from the Sun can be hot enough to fry an egg. The Sun’s surface is a super- hot 6,000*C and its centre or core is 1,000,000* C and the inner core of Sun is 14,000,000* C hot.

Que.7. – How can a day be longer than a year?

Ans. – A day is the amount of time a planet takes to spin on its axis , and a year is the time it takes to travel around the Sun. Venus spins on its axis very slowly, but orbits the Sun more quickly than Earth. A day on Venus lasts 243 Earth-days, but a year is only 225 Earth-days.