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Someone had to go first, and someone had to fix things when it all went wrong up there. Who's who? @elliomeg scored 593 in Missions & Astronauts on Outlier Trivia. Can you beat it?

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1Space › Missions & AstronautsMediumJapan's Akatsuki spacecraft was sent to orbit which planet?Right2.7s+99
2Space › Missions & AstronautsMediumJapan launches its largest rockets from a space centre on which island?Wrong1.9s0
3Space › TelescopesExpertThe 1977 "Wow!" signal was a strong narrowband burst picked up by a telescope in which US state?Wrong1.9s0
4Space › Missions & AstronautsHardThe shuttle orbiter Endeavour took its name from whose ship?Wrong2.7s0
5Space › Missions & AstronautsHardWhich orbiter was built as a test article and never flew in space?Right1.5s+100
6Space › Missions & AstronautsVery hardWhich Soviet probe made the first robotic return of lunar soil, in 1970?Wrong2.5s0
7Space › TelescopesHardA telescope's ability to separate two close objects improves most directly with what?Right2.6s+99
8Space › Missions & AstronautsEasyWhat kind of satellite relays telephone and television signals?Right1.9s+100
9Space › Missions & AstronautsEasyWhat is a Russian astronaut usually called?Right0.9s+100
10Space › TelescopesMediumIn radio astronomy, what does VLBI stand for?Right5.5s+95