Quiz #014 Difficulty: Medium Early Astronauts 1. Which astronauts hold the record for 7. Why was Scott Carpenter’s call sign traveling the furthest distance from Aurora 7? Earth? A) His address as a child was Aurora and S th A) Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan, and 7 St. in Boulder, Colorado P John Young, Apollo 10 B) During his mission he had to identify B) Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and seven stars above the aurora A Michael Collins, Apollo 11 C) To honor his high school C) Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred championship swim team Haise, Apollo 13 C 8. Why was John Glenn’s Mercury flight E 2. Who said of The Right Stuff, “the movie called Friendship 7? was lousy but Tom Wolfe’s coverage A) To highlight the camaraderie among the astronauts in the book [of the testing], I thought wasn’t bad at all?” B) To reflect how the US felt about the A) Scott Carpenter world H C) B) John Glenn To counter a Soviet comment about I C) Wally Schirra how the astronauts were spoiled S 3. Who is the only astronaut to fly to the T Moon twice without ever landing on it? A) Jim Lovell Answers: B) John Young 1. (C) As a result of the Apollo 13 free return O C) Richard Gordon trajectory, they reached an altitude of 400,171 km above sea level at 0:21 UTC R 4. Which moonwalker was a direct on 15 April 1970. Y descendant of a Mayflower passenger? 2. (B) A) David Scott, Apollo 15 3. (A) B) 4. (C) He was a descendant of Richard Pete Conrad, Apollo 12 Warren. C) Alan Shepard, Apollo 14 5. (C) C 6. (A) As told in Quest 21:1, one day a staffer 5. The first astronauts were known as the bought the dry ice from a local fish market. H “Original 7.” What was the nickname for 7. (A) the second group of NASA astronauts? 8. (B) Per his biography, “the world is going A A) The New Guys to be watching so the name should B) represent our country and the way we Special K feel about the rest of the world.” L C) The Next Nine L 6. Why did Buzz Aldrin’s test spacesuit Sponsored by: SPADE Indexes LLC smell like fish? E A) An accident from cooling the suit B) A practical joke N C) They used fish intestines instead of G fiber for extra strength E™ Created by: SPACE 3.0 For more quizzes, visit us at: Released: March 2021 SpaceCommerce.org/challenge.