Question : The space shuttle which took Sunita Williams beyond Earth was
Option 1: Challenger
Option 2: Galileo
Option 3: Discovery
Option 4: Voyager-2
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Correct Answer: Discovery
Solution : The correct option is Discovery.
To join the Expedition 14 crew, Sunita Williams was launched to the International Space Station (ISS) on STS-116 on December 9, 2006, onboard the Space Shuttle Discovery. One of the orbiters from the NASA Space Shuttle programme, Discovery is the third of five completely functional orbiters to be constructed.
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Question : The first woman of Indian origin who undertook a space journey is
Option 1: Sunita Williams
Option 2: Kalpana Chawla
Option 3: Darshan Ranganath
Option 4: Avani Chaturvedi
Question : Sunita Williams is a/an
Option 1: Astronaut
Option 2: Missile scientist
Option 3: Nuclear scientist
Option 4: Astro physicist
Question : First Hindu-American to enter in the US House of Representative as senator is :
Option 2: Jyoti Sengupta
Option 3: Ami Bera
Option 4: Tulsi Gabbard
Question : The final boundary between the Earth and the outer space is called ____.
Option 1: magnetosphere
Option 2: ionosphere
Option 3: mesopause
Option 4: magnetopause
Question : For which discovery did William Bradford Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain jointly receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956?
Option 1: Discovery of transistor effect
Option 2: Discovery of thermionic emission
Option 3: Discovery of electromagnetic induction
Option 4: Discovery of receptors for temperature and touch
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