everyone feel free to answer or add your own trivia question.

I'll start off with 2:
Q: How many US crews landed on the moon during the Apollo Program?

Q: Which space shuttle never made it into orbit?


I'll have the answer(s) each nite after I get home from work. ( about 5:00 AM EST)

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7 crews

enterprise never made it into orbit

Welcome Cochise. you got one out of two. I missed both of them the 1st time I was asked them.



A: 6 two man crews landed on the moon. Apollo missions 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17.
Apollo 13 never landed.

A: The Enterprise. It was used for Approach and Landing Test program in 1977 and is now at the Dulles facility of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.


Q1: How many orbits did John Glenn make on his 1st space flight?

Q2: What booster rocket was used to launch John Glenn into orbit in 1962?

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Q1: 0

Q2: Redstone

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The one that blew up never made it to orbit. The Challenger.

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John Glenn made three orbits, I believe. Was the booster the Saturn-B?
Good questions, Sir Ulli.

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> The one that blew up never made it to orbit. The Challenger.
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There were 9 successful missions in the 4 years before that. Yes it had made it into orbit, unfortunately it did not on that day.

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Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here.

ghstwolf is right. Challenger had previous succesful flights. I still remember where I was and what I was doing on that day. I was watching the launch on TV at school that day. It had our 1st female teacher onboard.

A1: John Glenn made 3 orbits around the earth before returning.
A2: It was A modified Atlas, a U.S. Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic Missle(ICBM).
Since reading about that one I've tried to imagine what it would have been like to strap myself to the tip of an ICBM! That guy had to have guts and trust in his coworkers!

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Q3: What was the name of the Greek philosopher credited with being the 1st to predict a solar elclipse?

Q4:True or false: All astronauts have to carry passports. (What If they made an emergency landing in another country?) or ( they programmed the launch vehicle in inches and the lander in meters?)

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I thought that I should point out that in Q3 that the Greek philosopher was credited with predicting the date of the solar eclipse. not that they existed or how they happen.
At the time they understood the cycles of lunar eclipses but not the cycles of solar eclipses. Since It is hard to see the moon when the sun is in the sky it was hard to predict when a solar eclipse would happen for them back then.

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I'm going to say it was that retard Ptolemy and yes they have to carry passports.

A3: Thales of Matelus predicted a solar eclipse in 585 BC . The eclipse itself put an end to a war being waged between the Lydians and the Medes.

A4:False. In the Astronaut Rescue Agreement of 1968 signatory nations agreed to provide the safe return of astronauts or cosmonauts who happen to make an emergenct landing in their country.

Q5:What was the 1st satellite placed into orbit?

Q6:Which NASA field center controlled the study of the Mars surface by the robot Sojourner(1988)?

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A5 Sputnik.

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Ya see, I knew Ptolemy was an idiot.

A5: Discoverer I 1959. It was placed in a polar orbit.

A6:JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Pasadena California. The same ones controlling the present Mars Rovers.

Q7:Who piloted the 1st successful sustained flight of an airplane: Orville or Wilbur Wright?

Q8: In response to a friend's prediction that men would eventually fly in heavier than air machines, a minister said,"Flying is reserved for the angels. I beg you not to mention that again lest you be guilty of blasphemy."
Who is the minister that said this?

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> Q7:Who piloted the 1st successful sustained flight of an airplane: Orville or
> Wilbur Wright?
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> Q8: In response to a friend's prediction that men would eventually fly in
> heavier than air machines, a minister said,"Flying is reserved for the angels.
> I beg you not to mention that again lest you be guilty of blasphemy."
> Who is the minister that said this?

Q:8 Answer ..... Milton Wright, 1870
Minister in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ
Father of Orville and Wilbur Wright

Q:7 Answer .... Otto Lilienthal was the first in history to make sustained and replicable flights ....
But in 1903, the first powered, sustained, and human-piloted flight carried Wilbur Wright 120 feet in 12 seconds.

Q:9 Name the crew aboard and the name of the first space shuttle.

Q:10 Who performed the first spacewalk ?

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Um... the first satellite was sputnik. 1957

The second was Explorer in '58

your right cochise. I looked back at my question and I left out the word polar. Sputnik was the 1st in orbit and Discoverer I was the 1st in a polar orbit. My bad.
sorry.

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A7: Orville. His brother Wilbur ran along side the aircraft, which took off into a 27 mile per hour headwind. that is what my american books say. but I conceed that Otto Lilienthal may have been the 1st. The 2 countries are still argueing this out at the moment. Seem that since the Wright brothers have a picture and Lilienthal has a hand drawn picture that America doesn't recognize the Otto flight as the 1st. I on the other hand really don't care. If it flew then it flew. Otto deserves the right if he did it.
Are we to belive that history before a camera was invented is not true or didn't happen?

A8:Rev. Milton Wright. 1870. Orville and Wilbur's father.

Q9:answer: I only knew the ship and the commander, not the rest of the crew.( I had to google it) so I'll wait and see if anyone else gets it.

Q10:answer: I will say cosmonaut Alexi Leonev did it from the Skylab in the cosmonaut suit.
Even if Q10 :answer is wrong...
here is Q11: Alexo Leonev barely managed to reenter his airlock because his suit was to stiff. How did he overcome this problem?

Q11: Who was the 1st person to fly solo around the moon in the 20th century?

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Q11: Alexo Leonev barely managed to reenter his airlock because his
> suit was to stiff. How did he overcome this problem?

Pretty sure he cut off the air

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> Q11: Who was the 1st person to fly solo around the moon in the 20th century?
>
Michael Collins ???

BTW next Q is 13.

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Still looking for something profound or inspirational to place here.