Quiz #001 Difficulty: Medium The First In-Flight Space Fatality 1. Which mission had the first in-flight 8. Which pilot was the mission backup? space fatality? A) Vladimir Titov S A) Soyuz-1 B) Yuri Gagarin B) Space Shuttle Challenger C) Sergei Gonchar C) Apollo13 P 9. Where was Col. Komarov buried? A 2. How old was Colonel Vladimir A) On a hill overlooking Moscow Komarov at the time of this mission? B) In a wall at the Kremlin C A) 30 C) At an undisclosed location B) 35 E C) 40 Answers: 3. Why did the mission fail? 1. (A) The mission took place April 23-24, A) The oxygen tank exploded 1967, and killed the pilot and only crew H B) The parachute did not open member, Colonel Vladimir Komarov. C) The heat shield was damaged 2. (C) I 3. (B) The main parachute did not release 4. What was the pilot doing minutes and the manually-deployed reserve chute S tangled with the main’s drogue. The before the crash? Soyuz-1 descent module hit the ground at T A) Screaming at mission control around 40 meters per second (89mph). B) Saying good-bye to his wife 4. (C) C) Preparing for landing 5. (A) It was the first crewed flight of the O Soyuz launch 7K-OK spacecraft and Soyuz 5. What was the purpose of the flight? rocket. The Soyuz-2 mission was aborted R before launch, after the 13th orbit of A) Dock with another vehicle and Soyuz-1. Y exchange crew in flight 6. (A) B) Take photographs of US missile sites 7. (C) There were numerous spacecraft C) Test a lunar spacesuit design issues, but the flight proceeded due to political pressure. C 6. What was Col. Komarov’s code name 8. (B) for this flight? 9. (B) His ashes were interred in the Kremlin Wall Necropolis—the highest honor of the H A) Rubin (ruby) Soviet Union. B) Izumrud (emerald) Learn more: “The Death of Vladimir A C) Chayka (seagull) Komarov: Pressure, Politics, and Parachutes” by Asif Siddiqi, PhD (Quest: Volume 27 #1) L 7. Until its final moments, the spacecraft: A) Operated flawlessly L B) Experienced usual/routine issues, Sponsored by: SPADE Indexes LLC which were easily overcome E C) Was beset by numerous technical N problems G E™ Created by: SPACE 3.0 For more quizzes, visit us at: Released: April 2020 SpaceCommerce.org/challenge.