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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.



1.  What shuttle flight had the first all-rookie crew?
    STS-2.

2.  What shuttle flight had the first all-veteran crew?
    STS-26.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.