NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has returned samples from an ___ for the first time?
- A. Asteroid Vesta
- B. Asteroid Eros
- C. Asteroid Bennu
- D. Asteroid Apophis
Correct Answer: C. Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is a robotic spacecraft that has been on a seven-year mission to collect and return samples from an asteroid called Bennu—billions of kilometres from Earth. The other country which bring back sample from an asteroid is Japan in 2020. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx took more than two years to reach Bennu after OSIRIS-REx launch in 2016. It then spent almost as much time mapping the asteroid, finding a site to scrape and collecting about 250 grams (8.8 ounces) of the rock. Then it began its journey back toward Earth.
Correct Answer: B. UAE
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has establish a federal gaming body that will create a regulatory framework for a national lottery and commercial gaming across the Gulf Arab nation, according to a report by the state-operated Emirates News Agency.
Correct Answer: C. India
India is set to host the Group of Twenty (G20) leaders’ summit in 2023 in Indian Occupied Kashmir. as India will assume the presidency of the group from Indonesia later this year
Correct Answer: B. Endeavor
The United States astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, landed back on the Earth. The astronauts splashed down aboard Crew Dragon ‘Endeavor’ in the Gulf of Mexico after a 64-day voyage in space. This is NASA’s first crewed mission from American soil in nine years. This splashdown is the first of its kind by NASA in 45 years.
Correct Answer: A. September 27, 2020
Iran`s Revolutionary Guards on September 27, 2020, unveiled a new naval ballistic missile with a potential range of over 700 kilometers (430 miles), local media reported, following months of tensions with the arch-enemy the United States. The missile, dubbed `Zolf aghar Basir`, is a naval variant of the surface-to-surface Zolfaghar ballistic missile, according to Tasnim news agency.
Correct Answer: B. Cancer
Cancer cases can rise to 81 percent by 2040, as per a report published by the World Health Organisation on World Cancer Day February 4, 2020
Correct Answer: A. United States
India will sign a military agreement with the United States for sharing of sensitive satellite data, the defense ministry said on Monday, October 26, 2020, as the two sides began a top-level security dialogue aimed at countering China`s growing power in the region.