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🚀 Space Tourism 🚀

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10 questions
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1

Which company successfully launched the first crewed suborbital spaceflight with tourists in 2021?

Blue Origin

Boeing

SpaceX

Virgin Galactic

Hard  24% got this right

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Blue Origin, was on this inaugural tourist flight!
2

What is the name of Virgin Galactic's spaceplane designed for suborbital tourism flights?

SpaceShipTwo

Dragon Capsule

New Shepard

Starliner

Hard  31% got this right

SpaceShipTwo is air-launched from a carrier aircraft called WhiteKnightTwo.
3

Who was the first self-funded space tourist to visit the International Space Station (ISS)?

Dennis Tito

Anousheh Ansari

Guy Laliberté

Mark Shuttleworth

Hard  26% got this right

Dennis Tito reportedly paid around $20 million for his trip to the ISS in 200
4

Which company is planning to offer orbital space tourism experiences using its Starship spacecraft?

SpaceX

Blue Origin

Sierra Space

Virgin Galactic

57% got this right

SpaceX's Starship is designed to be fully reusable, aiming to lower the cost of space travel.
5

What is the approximate altitude that defines the boundary of space, known as the Kármán line?

10
100
500
km

Hard  32% got this right

The Kármán line is an imaginary boundary 100 km above Earth's mean sea level.
6

What was the name of the Russian space agency that facilitated the early space tourism flights to the ISS?

Roscosmos

ESA

JAXA

NASA

37% got this right

Roscosmos used its Soyuz spacecraft for transporting space tourists to the ISS.
7

Who was the first woman to fly as a self-funded space tourist?

Anousheh Ansari

Sally Ride

Valentina Tereshkova

Wally Funk

35% got this right

Anousheh Ansari blogged about her experiences during her trip to the ISS in 2006.
8

Which of the following is true about Wally Funk's journey to space?

She was part of the Mercury 13 and flew with Blue Origin.

She flew on the Space Shuttle program.

She was the first space tourist to orbit Earth.

She was the first woman in space.

37% got this right

Wally Funk, at 82, became one of the oldest people to reach space, decades after being denied by NASA's early program.
9

Who is planning to build a commercial space station called Orbital Reef, potentially for future space tourists?

Blue Origin

Sierra Space

SpaceX

Virgin Galactic

Hard  20% got this right

Called “Orbital Reef,” it is architected as a mixed-use business park 250 miles above Earth.
10

Which company launched an all-female crew to space on April 14, 2025?

Blue Origin

Sierra Space

Space X

Virgin Galactic

Hard  29% got this right

Blue Origin's all-female flight marked the first time since 1963 that women went to space without a male astronaut.