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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