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The December 18th Space News Roundup (The JSC paper) published a trivia quiz.
To give everyone something to do over the holidays I thought I would post some
of the questions.  I'll post the answers next week to give everyone ample time
to find the answers.

1.  What shuttle flight had the first all-rookie crew?

2.  What shuttle flight the first all-veteran crew?

3.  Name all the moon walkers.

4.  Which ocean did the first American manned orbital spacecraft land in?

5.  What did Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan call their Gemini IX rendezvous
    target, whose aerodynamic shroud got snagged?

6.  With the current manafest, who will be the first American woman to fly
    in space four times?

7.  With the current manafest, who will be the first man to fly on the shuttle
    five times?

8.  What four signatures are on the plaque mounted to the leg on the Apollo 11
    lunar module?

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?

10. What astronaut has flown with the most number of different individuals?

11. Which president signed Executive Order No. 10849 establishing the NASA
    seal and meatball?

12. How many foreign payload specialists flew on board space shuttle orbiters
    in 1992?

13. What countries did they represent?

14. How many rookie astronauts made their first space flight in 1992?

15. Astronauts Dan Brandenstein and Robert "Hoot" Gibson commanded the space
    vehicle "Endeavour".  Who commanded the space vehicle "Endeavor"?

16. What date is the anniversary of three shuttle flights since return to
    flight?

17. Who was honored with the Oscar that flew on STS-45?

18. What astronauts received Emmys?

19. What was the first delivery for the Ace Moving Company?

20. What three men went to the moon twice?

21. Which astronaut wrote the book "How Do You Use the Bathroom in Space"?

22. Who sang "I was walking on the Moon one day"?

23. What satellite, including transponder, is NASA select carried on?

24. Besides the JSC Building 31 vault, where are the bulk of the pristine
    lunar samples stored?

25. Not counting Apollo-Soyuz, who was the first non-American to fly on a
    U.S. spacecraft?

26. What suttle astronaut holds the record for the most EVA time?

27. How many technical and weather delays did John Glenn have before Friendship
    7 was launched?

28. Who said "I felt red, white, and blue all over"?

29. Who described the moon as "A very dark and unappetizing place"?

30. How many Saturn V's flew?


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Pat Oliver -  	Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company at NASA JSC
		OLIVER@vf.jsc.nasa.gov
		All standard disclamers apply.