26. Bearing in mind the quiz title, what links the answers to the first nine questions?
From Quiz A Heavenly Common Bond
Answer:
Astronauts
The names in the answers are all shared with astronauts in the USA's Apollo programme.
1. Virgil GRISSOM, better known as Gus, was part of the Mercury and Gemini programmes, as well as Apollo. He went into space twice, but lost his life when a fire broke out in the Command Module he, Roger Chaffee and Ed White were testing prior to the first Apollo mission.
2. James IRWIN was the eighth person to walk on the Moon, having been the Lunar Module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission.
3. Alan BEAN flew in Apollo 12, in 1969, the second of the moon landings. He became the fourth man on the moon. He was accompanied by Pete CONRAD, (Clue 4) the third man to explore the moon's surface,
5. Harrison SCHMITT was a member of the Apollo 17 crew, the final completed mission of the Apollo programme. He became the first scientist to walk on the moon and the first astronaut without a previous aviation career.
6. Probably the most instantly recognisable name in the quiz, Neil ARMSTRONG became the first man to set foot on the moon when Apollo 11 became the first spacecraft to land humans on another celestial body. He was accompanied by Buzz Aldrin while Michael COLLINS (clue 8) remained on board the Command Module which would bring all three men back to Earth.
7. Jim LOVELL was one of the three men in Apollo 8, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon in 1968. He never managed to set foot on the moon as he was also the Commander of Apollo 13, the mission that had to be aborted, although the three astronauts were brought safely back to Earth.
9. The tenth man to walk on the moon was Charles DUKE, the man who piloted the Lunar Module for Apollo 16 in 1972. He still remains the youngest man to walk on the moon at the time of writing this quiz in 2026. His companions were John Young and Ken Mattingly.
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