{"id":599925,"date":"2026-04-12T21:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599925\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:59:11","slug":"quiz-the-continuing-quest-for-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/599925\/","title":{"rendered":"QUIZ: The continuing quest for space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              QUIZ: The continuing quest for space<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 5:20 am Sunday, April 12, 2026<\/p>\n<p>It was 65 years ago, on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history as the first person in space. His 108-minute orbital flight aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft was an important part of the international space race of the 1950s and 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>Space travel has not come to an end. On April 1, a new space voyage departed Earth. It carried four astronauts, including one Canadian.<\/p>\n<p>The quest for space travel affected scientific and technological research. It also served as the inspiration for plenty of science fiction of its time.<\/p>\n<p>How much do you know about space travel in fact and fiction? Put your knowledge to the test with these 12 questions.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summerlandreview.com\/2026\/01\/04\/quiz-exploring-visions-of-the-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: QUIZ: Exploring visions of the future<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summerlandreview.com\/2025\/02\/23\/quiz-in-celebration-of-the-freedom-to-read\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: QUIZ: In celebration of the freedom to read<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summerlandreview.com\/2026\/03\/14\/quiz-a-celebration-of-einstein-pi-and-pie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">READ MORE: QUIZ: A celebration of Einstein, pi and pie<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUIZ: The continuing quest for space Published 5:20 am Sunday, April 12, 2026 It was 65 years ago,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-599925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}