1) How many Mercury astronauts were there?
a. 6
b. 7
c. 15

2) Who announced that by December 21, 1969, an American would land on the Moon?
a. Lyndon B. Johnson
b. Neil Armstrong
c. John F. Kennedy

3) What manned missions did titan launch into space?
a. Apollo
b. Gemini
c. Space Shuttle

4) A space station is where
a. People live and work.
b. People go to get an education.
c. Prisoners are sent.

5) The Galileo Probe doesn’t exist anymore. What happened?
a. It burned up in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
b. It journeyed out of the galaxy.
c. It exploded during launch.

6) The Apollo spacecraft was made of how many main parts?
a. 1
b. 4
c. 3

7). What two probes were launched into space by a titan rocket?
a. Titan/Viking
b. Minnesota Vikings/Tennessee Titans
c. Viking/Voyager

8) The Mars Pathfinder is an example of a
a. More expensive, slower mission.
b. Faster, better, cheaper program.
c. Probe mission orbiting the inner planets.

9) Which planet was not visited by a Mariner probe?
a. Mars
b. Venus
c. Pluto

10) What of the following was not a probe sent by the USSR to the inner planets?
a. Mars 1-7
b. Inner Probe 12
c. Phobos 1 and 2

11) Why is the Hubble Space Telescope a success?
a. It is the best land-based telescope ever constructed.
b. Its pictures are clearer because it is above the Earth’s atmosphere.
c. It takes x-ray pictures of space.

12) Who were the three astronauts filled in a launchpad fire?
a. Grissom, White, Chaffee
b. Shepard, Armstrong, Cooper
c. Young, Glenn, Grissom

13) What was damaged on Skylab’s first mission?
a. The brakes
b. The orbital workshop
c. The heat shield

14) What was the name of the first satellite sent into space by the Soviet Union?
a. Sputnik
b. Luna
c. Cosmos

15) Which Gemini astronaut was the first man to go to space twice?
a. Frank Borman
b. James Lovell
c. Gus Grissom


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