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4. According to the passage, which of these companies that offer flights are from the
cheapest to the most expensive?
(a) The highest offered by SpaceX and the cheapest by the United Launch Alliance Atlas V.

(b) The cheapest offered by SpaceX and the highest by the United Launch Alliance Atlas V.
(c) SpaceX and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V are around the same range.
(d) Only SpaceX offers flight for space tourism.

5. Which of these statements is NOT true about space tourism?
(a) Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ rocket business will soon launch space passengers.
(b) Guy Laliberté, the co-founder of Cirque du Soleil, paid ` 260 crore for a voyage
to the International Space Station.
(c) Dennis Tito, world’s second private astronaut, paid ` 148.8 crore to spend eight
days in space.
(d) The non-profit X Prize Foundation was created by a group of donors.
6. What is the mission of NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites programme?

(a) to qualify small satellites for a free ride to space
(b) to allow research groups to go to space for their research
(c) to make space flights cheaper

(d) to encourage people to opt for space flights for educational purposes
7. The costs ‘skyrocket’ as the purpose and mission changes, what does the word skyrocket
denote as used in the passage?

(a) decrease drastically (b) the name of the organisation
(c) fly across the space (d) increase drastically
8. What does ‘brief suborbital flights’ indicate in terms of the scope of the journey?
(a) the trajectory that covers a full orbit space travel

(b) the trajectory of the gravitational body from which it was launched intersects
the atmosphere or surface of that body

(c) it relates to a trajectory that does not complete a full orbit of the moon
(d) it relates to a trajectory that orbits only till the last atmospheric layer

9. Find a word from the passage which means ‘a price that is too hgh’. (para 1)
10. Find a word from the passage which means the opposite of ‘to increase’. (para 1)
11. How much money did Dennis Tito and Guy Laliberte pay for space flight?

12. What is NASA’s Educational Launch of Nanosatellites programme?

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