Space Medicine: Mercury-Apollo

Space Medicine: Mercury-Apollo

Quiz #005 Difficulty: Medium Space Medicine: Mercury-Apollo 1. Who was the flight surgeon involved in 8. Why did President Nixon fail to have selecting the Mercury astronauts? dinner with the astronauts on the eve of S A) Dee O’Hara the Apollo 11 launch? B) Charles Berry A) It conflicted with the pre-launch P C) Leonard Horatio McCoy quarantine protocol B) A budget emergency on Capitol Hill A 2. Which type of astronaut medical training C) A Vietnam War riot was taking place was NOT used during Mercury? C A) Centrifuge runs 9. NASA designs sought 0.999% reliability B) Altitude chamber tests for hardware, subsystems, and systems. E C) Underwater training in spacesuits Why did the chief of medical operations refuse? 3. After President Kennedy announced plans A) He didn’t think the astronauts were for a lunar landing, what was the max mission capable H flight time achieved by a Mercury mission? B) There were no established procedures A) 48 minutes to test astronauts I B) 34 hours C) He didn’t want to be sent to prison S C) 5 days 4. Deke Slayton and which other Mercury Answers: T astronaut were grounded for medical 1. (B) reasons? 2. (C) Underwater training with spacesuits O A) Alan Shepard was added in the late Gemini Program B) John Glenn 3. (B) Gordon Cooper, “Faith 7” Mercury-Atlas 9 R C) 4. (A) Shepard was grounded from 1963- Gordon Cooper 1969 due to an inner ear ailment Y 5. (C) This ultimately led to a reevaluation 5. Where was Deke Slayton when he ran and change of his flight status out of his heart medication? 6. (B) A) Astronaut survival training in the desert 7. (B) Apollo 11, 12, and 14. Apollo 13 didn’t C B) On vacation in Tahiti land on the Moon, so it’s MQF wasn’t used C) On an antelope hunt 8. (A) H 9. (C) The 0.999% reliability spec requires 6. Who charged NASA with developing destructive testing (i.e., killing the astronaut) procedures to prevent a “lunar plague”? Learn more: “An Interview with Charles A Berry: The Astronaut’s Doctor” A) John F. Kennedy (Quest: Volume 27 #2) L B) Lyndon B. Johnson C) Richard M. Nixon L Sponsored by: SPADE Indexes LLC 7. How many missions used a Mobile E Quarantine Facility (MQF)? A) One N B) Three G C) Six E™ Created by: SPACE 3.0 For more quizzes, visit us at: Released: May 2020 SpaceCommerce.org/challenge.

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