Following liftoff, the Space Shuttle reaches 17,500 miles per hour in:|24 minutes, 12 seconds|17 minutes, 5 seconds|8 minutes,30 seconds|32 minutes|3
The Space Shuttle main engine weighs only one-seventh as much as a train engine, but delivers as much power as how many locomotives?|nine|twenty-two|sixty-one|thirty-nine|4
The turbopump on the Space Shuttle main engine is so powerful it could drain an average family-sized swimming pool in:|one hour|25 seconds|14 minutes|37 minutes|2
The energy released by the three Space Shuttle main engines is equivalent to the output of:|23 Hoover Dams|one hundred wind mills|6,200 solar panels|100,000 Size D batteries|1
Which of the orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet was built as a test vehicle and never intended for spaceflight?|Columbia|Challenger|Discovery|Enterprise|4
Which of the four orbiters was the first to fly with the MEDS upgraded glass cockpit in 2000?|Endeavour|Discovery|Columbia|Atlantis|4
In 1989 the Space Shuttle deployed what spacecraft toward Jupiter?|Chandra|Magellan|Galileo|Ulysses|3
The Space Shuttle is the most versatile spacecraft in the world because it is capable of which of the following:|Traveling to the Moon|Traveling to the Moon and Mars|Launching from locations in Florida, Texas, and California|On-orbit assembly, research, payload deployment and retrieval, crew transfer, cargo return, and technology demonstration. |4
The Space Shuttle is the only vehicle capable of assembly and disassembly of what structure?|International Space Station|Another Space Shuttle|Orion III Satellite|Skylab|1
The first woman to pilot and command Space Shuttle missions was:|Eileen Collins|Sally Ride|Shannon Lucid|Bonnie Dunbar|1
Which of the following public safety tools is a direct spinoff of the Space Shuttle program?|Self-righting Life Raft|Band-Aids|Personal Storm Warning System|Velcro|3
NASA aerodynamics technology originally developed for Space Shuttle External Tank airload analysis was later used to enhance:|bicycle helmets|18-wheeler gas mileage through better aerodynamics|accuracy and distance for golf balls|weather forecasting|3
Each Space Shuttle Orbiter was built to fly for at least how many flights?|25|300|100|125|3
The astronaut holding the record for most consecutive hours spent in space is:|John Glenn|Shannon Lucid|Valery Polyakov|Robert Crippen|2
In 1984, an event occurred that had never been accomplished before in space, what was it?|Astronauts were able to brush their teeth in space.|Astronauts made untethered spacewalks using backpack jets.|The Space Shuttle docked with the Russian space station, Mir.|Guppies gave birth in space.|2
The Hubble telescope has studied 13,670 objects and made 271,000 individual observations. What year was it launched?|1997|1999|1993|1990|4
The first class of astronauts selected specifically for the Space Shuttle program included (blank) for the first time.|Physicians|Monkeys|Women|Non-pilots|3
What is the only vehicle capable of capture, repair, and deployment of satellites and instruments in orbit?|Space Shuttle|International Space Station|Space Station Mir|Voyager|1
The first docking between the Space Shuttle and the Russian space station Mir happened in:|1994|1995|1997|1998|2
The astronauts aboard the first flight of the Space Shuttle in April 1981 were:|Sally Ride and John Young|John Young and Robert Crippen|John Young and John Glenn|John Young and Pete Conrad|2
