NASA trivia, and the space program in general

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Trevor

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Here is some general trivia about the space program ever since the space race began on Oct 4, 1957. SOme of these questions, will be easy, others, really hard.

1. What was the date of Yuri Gagarin's launch aboard Vostok 1?
2. On Gemini 3, what type of sandwich did John Young smuggle into his space suit?
4. What is third stage of the Saturn V rocket called?
5. How many GPCs (general purpose computers) are there on the space shuttle orbiter?
 
oops, yea missed #3 there.

New questions:

1. What was the name of L.Gordon Coopers Murcury capsule?
2. Who is the current NASA administrator?
3. What was the name of the organization responsible for the investigation of the STS-107 columbia accident?
4. How many days did the crew of Skylab 3 (Skylab 4) spend in space?
5. What was the purpose of the STS-61 mission in Dec 1993?

Bonus question:
How many GPC's are there on the space shuttle orbiter?
 
1. Faith 7

2. Sean O'Keefe

3. Columbia Accident Investigation Board

4. 59 days, 11 hours

5. Expedition for service of cosmic telescope Hubble.
 
New Questions:

1. What was the significance of the 51-L Challenger mission?
2. How many times has astronaut Jerry Ross been in space?
3. What is will be the purpose of the STS-114 mission when it launches in 2005?
4. What happened on Gemini 8 when they tried to cut loose from the "Atlas Agena" rocket?
5. How far off target was astronaut Scott Carpenter when he splashed down with Aurora 7?
 
1. Following the investigation, changes were made to make the space shuttle better & more efficient.
2. Seven times
3. To deliver supplies to the International Space Station. The major focus of the mission will be testing and evaluating new Space Shuttle flight safety (including new inspection and repair techniques).
4. The capsule rotated because of a stuck thruster on the spacecraft (60RPM!)
5. He splashed down 250 miles off target.
 
1. Who was the CAPCOM during the decent of the Eagle on to the moon?
2. What were the "fireflies" that John Glenn had described were coming off his Friendship7 Capsule?
3. What was the name of Alexi Leonov's crewmate on Voskhod 2?
4. What is the OPF?
5. What country is the Baikonur Cosmodrome in?

P.S., sleepysweeper, you seem to be keen on this subject as well, feel free to put some questions of your own on here. You don't have to give out milbucks.
 
1. Charles Duke
2. Refracted light striking ice flakes from the spacecraft's systems
3. Pavel Belyayev
4. Orbiter Processing Facility
5. Russia

No questions from me - at least not this time ;)
 
Not bad, 4/5.

Bonus Question: What country is the Baikonur Cosmodrome in? (Hint: It used to be part of the former USSR)

1. Who is the current expedition crew for the Iinternational Space Station?
2. Which Mucury astronaut died on Oct 4, 2004?
3. What is the purpose of the Sound Surpression System on the launchpad?
4. Why was the Vehicle Assembly Building originally built?
5. Who was the first woman to walk in space?
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Bonus In Kazakhstan.
1.Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov
2. Gordon Cooper
3.It is to protect the orbiter and its payloads from damage by acoustical energy and rocket exhaust reflected from the flame trench and Mobile Launcher Platform during launch
4. To assemble the Saturn V rockets
5. Russian Colonel-Engineer Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
For America is Sally Kisten Ride
 
I always got a kick out of America's first woman astronaut being named Sally Ride. Wilson Pickett recorded the song some 20 years before she went up, but I'm sure there were many sound boxes blaring "Mustang Sally" to hear the refrain "ride Sally ride".
 
doomshot said:
Bonus In Kazakhstan.
1.Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov
2. Gordon Cooper
3.It is to protect the orbiter and its payloads from damage by acoustical energy and rocket exhaust reflected from the flame trench and Mobile Launcher Platform during launch
4. To assemble the Saturn V rockets
5. Russian Colonel-Engineer Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
For America is Sally Kisten Ride
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Very good, Doomshot. 4/5.

Bonus Question: Who was the first woman to WALK in space?

1. How many RCS thrusters does the orbiter have? (Foward and rear)
2. What does the SPS engine on the Apollo Service Module stand for?
3. Apollo 13 Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise didn't fly in space again. However, he did do approach and landing tests for this vehicle. What was it?
4. What Lunar probe did Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land near in the Ocean of Storms on Apollo 12?
5. Who was the commander of STS-71 and why was this mission so important?
 
Bonus Svetlana Savitskaya

1. 38 primary thrusters and 6 vernier thrusters
2.service propulsion system
3. Space Shuttle "Enterprise"
4. Surveyor 3
5. Commander was Robert L. "Hoot" Gibson. The mission was important because it showed United State's and Russia's willingness to cooperate with each other.
 
1. Where on the moon did Apollo 14 land?
2. How many tons of fuel per second did the Saturn V F-1 engines put out at lift-off?
3. When was the final shuttle mission to Mir?
4. What was the name of the Apollo 9 Lunar Module
5. What space probe recently landed on Saturn's moon Titan?
 
1. Apollo 14 landed in the Fra Mauro region.
2. 2.6 ton/sec
3. June 2, 1998, 6:06:24 PM EDT
4. Spider
5. Huygens probe
 
Well done 4/5.

1. How high of temperatures can the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) on the shuttle take? (RCC is on the wing leading edges and nose)
2. Who said "Magnificent desolation" when he first set foot on the moon?
3. What was the official designation of the shuttle Challenger? (OV-what?)
4. Why was this number lower than Columbia and Enterprise?
5. What apollo mission launched a satellite to orbit the moon?

Bonus: How many tons of fuel per second does the Saturn V F-1 engines put out at lift-off?
 
1. How high of temperatures can the Reinforced Carbon-Carbon (RCC) on the shuttle take? (RCC is on the wing leading edges and nose)
---->nearly 3000 F
2. Who said "Magnificent desolation" when he first set foot on the moon?
----> EDwin Aldrin- the second person to walk on the Moon
3. What was the official designation of the shuttle Challenger? (OV-what?)
---->OV99 I think
4. Why was this number lower than Columbia and Enterprise?
----->?
5. What apollo mission launched a satellite to orbit the moon?
---->Apollo-Soyuz mission
Bonus: How many tons of fuel per second does the Saturn V F-1 engines put out at lift-off?
----> no idea

PS I came across this interesting trivia- Shuttle Columbia Trivia Quiz, and thought you might like it.
 
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