What was the first satellite to launch, on Oct. 4 1957
a. Apollo 11
b. Sputnik
c. Explorer
d. Redstone
What was the first animal sent into orbit?
a. Chimp
b. Human
c. Dog
d. Lab rat
Who was the first American in space?
a. HAM
b. Enos
c. Yuri
d. Laika
Who was Yuri Gargarin?
a. Scientist who designed Sputnik
b. Laika’s owner
c. First man in space
d. First man in orbit
What was the purpose of the Mercury Project?
a. To get a man to the moon
b. To launch the first satellites
c. To study the planet closest to the sun
d. To put a man safely into orbit and back
Why did all the Mercury capsules have the number seven in their name?
a. For the number of astronauts in the program
b. Because it is a lucky number
c. For the number of planets discovered at that time
d. Because of the type of rocket fuel
What Mercury astronaut went back into space in 1998 on a space shuttle?
a. Alan Shepard
b. Gus Grissom
c. John Glenn
d. Gordo Cooper
Why did all the Mercury capsules have the number seven in their name?
a. For the number of astronauts in the program
b. Because it is a lucky number
c. For the number of planets discovered at that time
d. Because of the type of rocket fuel
What Mercury astronaut went back into space in 1998 on a space shuttle?
a. Alan Shepard
b. Gus Grissom
c. John Glenn
d. Gordo Cooper
How were the astronauts in Apollo 1 killed?
a. Their Parachutes didn’t open
b. There was a fire in their cockpit on the launch pad
c. The heat shield failed
d. They were lost in space
What were the first words spoken when Apollo 11 landed on the surface of the moon?
a. “Meridani Planum, we have landed”
b. “Tranquility base, the Eagle has landed”
c. “Houston, we have a problem”
d. “One small step for…oh, crap, who brought the dog?”
Where on the moon did Apollo 11 land?
a. Sea of Tranquility
b. Gusev Crater
c. Sea of lights
d. They never landed, the mission was aborted
Which space shuttle was the first to orbit the Earth?
a. Columbia
b. Endeavor
c. Discovery
d. Challenger
What caused the Challenger Explosion?
a. Short in the O2 tank
b. Fire in the cockpit
c. Faulty O-ring
d. Pin hole in the heat shield
Where is the Asteroid belt?
a. Between Mars and Jupiter
b. Between Mercury and Venus
c. Between Uranus and Neptune
d. In orbit around Jupiter
What is a chondrule?
a. A type of moon
b. A man made satellite
c. A piece of the original solar system
d. The inadvertent loss of saliva
What are shooting stars?
a. Stars that fell out of orbit
b. Satellites plummeting to Earth
c. Dust and rocks burning up in the atmosphere
d. Celebrity photo ops
Where to comets come from?
a. Oort cloud and asteroid belt
b. Oort cloud and Kuiper Belt
c. Kuiper belt and gas clouds
d. Planet Halley
What are a comet’s two tails composed of?
a. Dust and plasma
b. Dust and rocky debris
c. Plasma and photons
d. Rocks and minerals
Why do we have meteor showers?
a. Its faster than a bath
b. Ozone is dropping from the stratosphere
c. Earth passes close to a comet’s tail
d. They’re the contrail from UFOs
Which type of meteorite is believed to be a piece of Mars?
a. Chondrite
b. SNC
c. Phobos
d. Stony Iron
Asteroids and comets enter into our atmosphere and become
a. lava flows
b. meteors
c. ice pieces
d. stars
The asteroid which has its own moon is
a. Mathilde
b. Idadctyl
c. Eros
d. Ida
The main character in Armageddon (Bruce Willis) is a
a. Geologist
b. Driller
c. Accountant
d. Astrologist
Explain where achondrites and stony iron meteorites came from in a differentiated planet.
Explain the movie Armageddon, the plot, characters, how realistic, and the probability of this happening to Earth.
Explain why it is difficult to land a satellite on a comet and have we ever been able to do so?
Explain why it is difficult to land a satellite on an asteroid and have we ever been able to do so?