Space Flight Trivia

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Who was the second man to orbit the Earth? Gus Grissom Alan Shepard Gherman Titov John Glenn

2. On Gemini 9, Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan were to rendezvous and dock with a target vehicle. The shroud on the target vehicle failed to fully open and could not be jettisoned. How did Tom Stafford describe the target vehicle? It looked like an _____? Answer: (Two Words - both start with A)

3. The command module for Apollo 17 was named Challenger. True False

4. How many astronauts from the second and third groups never made a spaceflight? 2 6 4 5

5. What did Alan Bean and Pete Conrad take on Apollo 12 that Houston did not know about? a falcon feather golf club and ball first day covers automatic timer for the camera

6. This question goes back to the early days of rocketry at the Cape. So many of this particular rocket ended up going into the water, the engineers referred to the waters surrounding the Cape as _________-infested waters. Answer: (One Word - five letters)

7. Which Apollo mission was the first to have a crewmember who was not from one of the first three astronaut groups? Apollo 13 Apollo 15 Apollo 12 Apollo 10

8. Who was on the crew of Apollo 16? Stafford, Engle and Givens Armstrong, Pogue and Gibson Lovell, Carr and Worden Young, Mattingly and Duke

9. Who was the first woman to make two spaceflights? Svetlana Savitskaya Valentina Tereshkova Kathryn Sullivan Sally Ride

10. Who was CapCom when Neil Armstrong first left the lunar module and took the first steps on the moon? Bruce McCandless Ron Evans Charlie Duke Owen Garriott

11. Of all the astronauts who flew Apollo missions, who were the only two to fly space shuttle missions? Dick Gordon and John Young Gene Cernan and Ron Evans Pete Conrad and Dave Scott John Young and Ken Mattingly

12. After this moonwalker left the space program, he founded a Baptist ministry called High Flight. Who was it? Charlie Duke Buzz Aldrin Ed Mitchell Jim Irwin

13. Bruce McCandless performed the first untethered spacewalk in 1984. Who was the crewmate that performed the 2nd untethered spacewalk on the same mission? Robert Stewart Ronald McNair Robert Gibson John Creighton

14. Story Musgrave was selected with the 8th group of astronauts. True False

15. Which three astronauts served on the backup crew of Apollo 16? Young, Roosa and Duke Bean, Evans and Lousma Gordon, Schmitt and Brand Haise, Roosa and Mitchell

16. How many moonwalkers spent time on Skylab? 2 3 0 1

17. Which two scientist-astronauts chosen in the 4th group never made a spaceflight? Joe Kerwin and John Bull Paul Weitz and Don Lind Brian O'Leary and Bill Lenoir Duane Graveline and Curt Michel

18. The three astronauts who flew around the moon on Apollo 8 were not the original three on the crew. Which three were on the original crew? Stafford, Collins and Anders Conrad, Bean and Anders Borman, Collins and Anders Borman, Aldrin and Lovell

19. Who was the first to fly in space from the 7th group of astronauts? Donald Peterson Karol Bobko Henry Hartsfield Robert Crippen

20. Who was CapCom when Apollo 11 touched down on the moon? Donn Eisele Charlie Duke Bruce McCandless Ken Mattingly