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Exploring NASA: A Quiz on Space Exploration

Test your knowledge about NASA and its contributions to space exploration with this engaging quiz. Covering various missions, agencies, and scientific achievements, this quiz is designed to enhance your understanding of NASA's role in space science.

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1 Although they were officially designated to study just ________ and Saturn, the two probes were able to continue their mission into the outer solar system.

2 [16] Earlier research efforts within the ________[15] and many of ARPA's early space programs were also transferred to NASA.

3 The ISS is operated as a joint project between the American NASA, the Russian Federal Space Agency (RKA), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the ________ (CSA), and the European Space Agency (ESA).

4 Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, ________

5 What is the abbreviation of NASA?

6 In US dollars, what was the budget of NASA?

7 The mission began in 2003 with the sending of the two rovers — MER-A Spirit and MER-B Opportunity — to explore the Martian surface and ________.

8 Additionally, the Pioneer mission to ________ consisted of two components, launched separately.

9 Enhanced weather prediction for Energy Forecasting (DOE, ________ (EPA))

10 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ________, Pasadena, California

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Serge Monast was a Québécois journalist and conspiracy theorist who claimed that Project Blue Beam is a NASA plan to fake the Second Coming of Christ to bring about the New World Order.
  • Rocco Petrone was the first non-German administrator of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
  • Olga D. González-Sanabria, a Puerto Rican scientist and inventor, is the highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center.
  • Mercedes Reaves, a Puerto Rican research engineer and scientist, is responsible for the design of a viable, full-scale solar sail at the NASA Langley Research Center.
  • although NASA originally thought that there was only one scalloped margin dome on the planet Venus (pictured), they have since discovered hundreds of them.
  • during World War II, Paul C. Donnelly (pictured) helped develop the U.S. Navy's Bat, the first U.S. "smart bomb", and later was a senior NASA manager during the Apollo program.
  • using concepts described in Sefer ha-Temunah (pictured) the 13th-century Kabbalist Isaac ben Samuel calculated the age of the Universe, a number relatively close to the one estimated by NASA.
  • the automated Launch Processing System used by NASA for Space Shuttle launches has reduced the required number of firing room personnel to half of those required for an Apollo launch.
  • the DR 6 nebula (pictured) was nicknamed "The Galactic Ghoul" by scientists at NASA because of its resemblance to a human face.
  • the Benjamin Ogle Tayloe House in Washington, D.C., has been called the "Cream White House" and the "Little White House," and was once the headquarters for NASA.
  • Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine, made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997, and had been training for such a mission since 1976.
  • Daniel S. Goldin spearheaded the "faster, better, cheaper" approach at NASA.
  • NASA conducts field trials, called Desert RATS, for new technologies for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or beyond.
  • NASA terraforming expert Christopher McKay has explored the Gobi Desert, Siberia and Antarctica to study extremophilic life forms.
  • NASA astronaut Stephen Robinson has logged 497 hours in space.
  • Jesuit Donald Merrifield, the first president of Loyola Marymount University after its creation, worked as a consultant for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • NASA engineer Harvey Allen's "Blunt Body Theory" made possible the design of heat shields that protected the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts.
  • NASA inventor and scientist, Dr. Pedro Rodriguez is the son of the renowned Puerto Rican salsa singer, the late Pellin Rodriguez.
  • Claudia Alexander was the last project manager of NASA's Galileo mission to Jupiter.
  • Rocketdyne's E-1 rocket engine never saw production, but gave NASA confidence to develop the F-1 that powered the Saturn V to the Moon.
  • NASA test pilot Joe Walker's X-1E and record-setting X-15 were two of the very few research aircraft to have nose art? (pictured, Joe Walker and the X-1E)
  • NASA offers interested individuals opportunities to fly small experiments aboard the space shuttle called Getaway Specials.
  • freestyle wrestler William Kerslake, who competed in three Olympiads and got a gold medal at the 1955 Pan American Games, was also a NASA engineer and co-inventor of of the first ion thruster for space propulsion.
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