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Started by oliver
Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:00
Trivia quiz - answers
Author: oliver
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:00
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 19:00
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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.
--
Pat Oliver - Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company at NASA JSC
OLIVER@vf.jsc.nasa.gov
All standard disclamers apply.
Re: Trivia quiz - answers
Author: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:27
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:27
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In article <1992Dec29.130042.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> oliver@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>30. How many Saturn V's flew?
> Thirteen - Apollos 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Skylab
> 1...
If you really want to be picky, you can argue that the count was 12.6666...,
since the Skylab 1 launcher was only the first two stages of a Saturn V.
(The counterargument is that most of the payload was a rebuilt third
stage, of course!)
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
Re: Trivia quiz - answers
Author: Rich Kolker
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:20
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 04:20
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In article <C01FHu.Jsu@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <1992Dec29.130042.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> oliver@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes:
>>30. How many Saturn V's flew?
>> Thirteen - Apollos 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Skylab
>> 1...
>
>If you really want to be picky, you can argue that the count was 12.6666...,
>since the Skylab 1 launcher was only the first two stages of a Saturn V.
>(The counterargument is that most of the payload was a rebuilt third
>stage, of course!)
>--
Of course, third stages flew to KSC on a SuperGuppy, so it could be said
they flew twice! :-)
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Re: Trivia quiz - answers
Author: Joe Trott
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:07
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:07
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <1992Dec29.130042.1@vf.jsc.nasa.gov> oliver@vf.jsc.nasa.gov writes: >>30. How many Saturn V's flew? >> Thirteen - Apollos 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Skylab >> 1... >If you really want to be picky, you can argue that the count was 12.6666..., >since the Skylab 1 launcher was only the first two stages of a Saturn V. >(The counterargument is that most of the payload was a rebuilt third >stage, of course!) I vaguely remember some of the Mercury launches and many of the Gemini launches...I thought Apollo VI never flew, due to a fire in the CM that unfortunately killed 3. And, I don't remember an Apollo IV. Oh well... (I was born 11/59) -JTT
Re: Trivia quiz - answers
Author: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:25
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:25
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In article <1992Dec30.190747.29554@dcatlas.dot.gov> joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:
>>>30. How many Saturn V's flew?
>>> Thirteen - Apollos 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and Skylab
>>If you really want to be picky, you can argue that the count was 12.6666...,
>>since the Skylab 1 launcher was only the first two stages of a Saturn V.
>
>I vaguely remember some of the Mercury launches and many of the Gemini
>launches...I thought Apollo VI never flew, due to a fire in the CM that
>unfortunately killed 3. And, I don't remember an Apollo IV. Oh well...
Apollos 4 and 6 were both unmanned tests; Apollo 7 was the first manned
mission (which did not use a Saturn V). This was the post-fire numbering.
(The pre-fire numbering was somewhat confused, to put it politely. At the
time of the fire, the booster people were calling the Grissom/White/Chaffee
mission Apollo 4 (since three unmanned tests preceded it), and the astronauts
were calling it Apollo 1. Its only official name was AS-204. Afterward,
the crew's wishes were honored retroactively... which left the unmanned tests
in limbo. It's not clear why the first post-fire test was Apollo 4. There
never was a mission officially designated Apollo 2 or Apollo 3; proposals
to retroactively rename the pre-fire tests were rejected.)
Mercury used Redstone and Atlas boosters; Gemini used Titan.
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
Re: Trivia quiz - answers
Author: Brian Stuart Thorn
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:42
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 04:42
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>I vaguely remember some of the Mercury launches and many of the Gemini
>launches...I thought Apollo VI never flew, due to a fire in the CM that
>unfortunately killed 3. And, I don't remember an Apollo IV. Oh well...
>(I was born 11/59)
>
>-JTT
There were no missions officially designated Apollo 1, 2 or 3.
The Apollo 1 mission never took place. This flight was to be
the first manned mission of an Apollo spacecraft and was
scheduled for February, 1967. As with all space missions at
the time, it had a technical designation until it achieved
orbit, at which time it would get an official name.
Apollo 1 was officially the Apollo-Saturn 204 mission (AS-204).
A flash fire during a Countdown Demonstration Test on the
launch pad destroyed the spacecraft and killed astronauts
Grissom, White, and Chaffee on January 27, 1967.
Apollo 4 flew unmanned. This was the maiden flight of the
Saturn 5 (AS-501) and proved the risky 'all-up' principle. All
stages of the Saturn 5 flew live on the maiden flight. This
mission took place on November 9, 1967.
Apollo 5 was an unmanned flight of the Lunar Module only.
This mission was launched by the Saturn 1B on January 22, 1968.
The Apollo 5 Lunar Module was launched by the same Saturn 1B
which had been planned for the Apollo 204 mission.
Apollo 6 was the second unmanned test flight of the Saturn 5,
(AS-502) launched on April 6, 1968. This was less successful
than Apollo 4, with two engines out on the S-II second stage
and the failure of the S-IVB third stage to re-ignite in
orbit.
Apollo 7 was the first manned flight of Apollo, launched by
Saturn 1B (AS-205, I think) in October, 1968.
Apollo 8 was the first manned flight of the Saturn 5 (AS-503),
launched in December, 1968.
Apollo 11, the first manned landing on the moon, was launched
on the sixth Saturn 5 (AS-506). Before Armstrong and Aldrin
left the moon, they left behind a crew patch for what would
have been Apollo 1.
-Brian
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