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- Subject: Trivia quiz - answers
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- Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
- Date: 29 Dec 92 13:00:42 -0600
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- For those you you who were around last week and tried your hand in answering
- the questions of the trivia quiz I posted, here are the promised answers.
- Hope this was fun for all.
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- 1. What shuttle flight had the first all-rookie crew?
- STS-2.
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- 2. What shuttle flight had the first all-veteran crew?
- STS-26.
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- 3. Name all the moon walkers.
- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell,
- Alan Shepard, David Scott, Jim Irwin, John Young, Charlie Duke, Gene
- Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
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- 4. Which ocean did the first American manned orbital spacecraft land in?
- The Atlantic Ocean.
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- 5. What did Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan call their Gemini IX rendezvous
- target, whose aerodynamic shroud got snagged?
- The Angry Alligator.
-
- 6. With the current manafest, who will be the first American woman to fly
- in space four times?
- Shannon Lucid.
-
- 7. With the current manafest, who will be the first man to fly on the shuttle
- five times?
- Story Musgrave.
-
- 8. What four signatures are on the plaque mounted to the leg on the Apollo 11
- lunar module?
- Neil Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., Michael Collins and Richard Nixon.
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- 9. To verify Galileo's premise about equal falling speed for two masses, Dave
- Scott dropped a hammer and a feather on the moon. What kind of feather?
- A Falcon feather.
-
- 10. What astronaut has flown with the most number of different individuals?
- Guion Bluford has flown with 21 different people.
-
- 11. Which president signed Executive Order No. 10849 establishing the NASA
- seal and meatball?
- Dwight D. Eisenhower.
-
- 12. How many foreign payload specialists flew on board space shuttle orbiters
- in 1992?
- Six. Roberta Bondar, Ulf Merbold, Dirk Frimout, Franco Malerba, Mamoru
- Morhi and Steven MacLean. Claude Nicollier flew as a mission specialist.
-
- 13. What countries did they represent?
- Bondar and MacLean, Canada; Merbold, Germany; Firmout, Belgium; Malerba,
- Italy; and Morhi, Japan.
-
- 14. How many rookie astronauts made their first space flight in 1992?
- Ninteen.
-
- 15. Astronauts Dan Brandenstein and Robert "Hoot" Gibson commanded the space
- vehicle "Endeavour". Who commanded the space vehicle "Endeavor"?
- David R. Scott.
-
- 16. What date is the anniversary of three shuttle flights since return to
- flight?
- December 2 - STS-27, STS-35 and STS-53.
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- 17. Who was honored with the Oscar that flew on STS-45?
- George Lucas.
-
- 18. What astronauts received Emmys?
- Wally Schirra, Donn Eisle and Walt Cunningham received a special award for
- the first live TV broadcast in space during Apollo 7.
-
- 19. What was the first delivery for the Ace Moving Company?
- The Satellite Business Systems SBS-3 satellite and Telesat Canada's Anki
- C-3 were deployed on STS-5.
-
- 20. What three men went to the moon twice?
- Jim Lovell, Apollo 8 and 13; Gene Cernan, Apollo 10 and 17; and John Young,
- Apollo 10 and 16.
-
- 21. Which astronaut wrote the book "How Do You Use the Bathroom in Space"?
- Bill Pogue.
-
- 22. Who sang "I was walking on the Moon one day"?
- Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt.
-
- 23. What satellite, including transponder, is NASA select carried on?
- Satcom F2R, Transponder 13.
-
- 24. Besides the JSC Building 31 vault, where are the bulk of the pristine
- lunar samples stored?
- Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, TX. Extra Credit if you also said
- Building 950.
-
- 25. Not counting Apollo-Soyuz, who was the first non-American to fly on a
- U.S. spacecraft?
- Ulf Merbold on STS-9.
-
- 26. What suttle astronaut holds the record for the most EVA time?
- Jerry Ross.
-
- 27. How many technical and weather delays did John Glenn have before Friendship
- 7 was launched?
- Six.
-
- 28. Who said "I felt red, white, and blue all over"?
- Ed White remarking on the first American EVA during Gemini 4.
-
- 29. Who described the moon as "A very dark and unappetizing place"?
- William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission.
-
- 30. How many Saturn V's flew?
- Thirteen - Apollos 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Skylab
- 1. Apollos 5, 7, and the remaining Skylab missions were launched on
- Saturn 1Bs.
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- Pat Oliver - Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company at NASA JSC
- OLIVER@vf.jsc.nasa.gov
- All standard disclamers apply.
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