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Topic: Space exploration history trivia questions
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moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 07-07-2012 10:01 AM
   
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Originally posted by jasonelam:
Callsigns. Eagle for Vostok 2 and Apollo 11, Falcon for Soyuz 9, Vostok 3 and Apollo 15.
Correct again. An interesting point is that the call-sign was the cosmonaut not the spacecraft. They kept it throughout their career.The last American to fly solo was Evans on Apollo 17. |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-07-2012 10:08 AM
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Originally posted by moorouge:
The last American to fly solo was Evans on Apollo 17.
The last American to fly solo was Brian Binnie on the second X PRIZE qualifying flight of SpaceShipOne in October 2004. |
moorouge
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From: U.K.
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posted 07-07-2012 11:21 AM
Do sub-orbital hops count as proper flights? |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 07-07-2012 11:37 AM
I'm fairly certain Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom wouldn't want anyone discounting their Mercury flights... |
Cozmosis22
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From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 07-07-2012 12:21 PM
Guess we could count Yeager and some other X-Plane pilots in there too if SpaceShipOne was considered a "space flight"?+1 for Ron Evans.  |
Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
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posted 07-07-2012 12:26 PM
By international standards — and by that I mean the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's ruling by which the Soviet Union and the United States defined its records during the early space race — space begins at 62 miles (100 kilometers). That is why Alan Shepard was the first American in space and Chuck Yeager was not. If you discount Binnie's flight, then you also consider John Glenn to be the first American astronaut in space. Now back to the trivia: What is "Astronaut Water" and what company bottled it? |
LM1
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From: New York, NY
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 07-07-2012 02:17 PM
The question was "Who was the last person to fly in space alone.' Not the first person and not the last American. My interpretation of the question was the last person to fly an orbital flight alone. If we are going to count every sub-orbital flight, I will need a very long tape measure. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-07-2012 02:34 PM
So in the spirit of trivia, there have only been five people in history to fly above 62 miles (100 km) on suborbital flights. Name them. |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 07-07-2012 02:55 PM
If we only count orbital missions, Ron Evans would be the winner, but since I forgot the suborbital flights, I would take Brian Binnie as well. |
jasonelam
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From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 07-07-2012 03:04 PM
Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Joe Walker, Oleg Makarov, Vasili Lazarev, Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie (7 people). |
Robert Pearlman
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Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-07-2012 03:27 PM
Very good. I hadn't been counting Makarov and Lazarev because they launched on an orbital mission that aborted before entering orbit, but given the phrasing of my question, they certainly qualify. |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 07-07-2012 03:52 PM
There are 4 U.S. States that have not been the birthplace of an astronaut who has flown in space. Name them. |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 07-07-2012 07:12 PM
Okay, what was the brand/name of the cigars that Kraft passed out and we smoked in the MOCR especially after the successful rcovery of the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 astronauts? See any photos. |
LM1
Member Posts: 667
From: New York, NY
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 07-07-2012 07:15 PM
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Originally posted by jasonelam:
If we only count orbital missions, Ron Evans would be the winner, but since I forgot the suborbital flights, I would take Brian Binnie as well.
Why Ron Evans? If you mean his brief time alone on Apollo 17, that was well before the Chinese Taikonaut solo mission. Evans was not last. |
MattJL
Member Posts: 57
From: New Jersey, US
Registered: May 2012
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posted 07-07-2012 08:56 PM
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Originally posted by Sy Liebergot:
Okay, what was the brand/name of the cigars...
R. G. Dun Palmas? |
MattJL
Member Posts: 57
From: New Jersey, US
Registered: May 2012
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posted 07-08-2012 12:12 AM
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Originally posted by Robert Pearlman:
What is "Astronaut Water" and what company bottled it?
Ordinary water in space themed bottles, and it was bottled by Canada Dry.Here's one: Name the only astronaut to fly on all five shuttles, and name the shuttle they flew on twice. |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 07-08-2012 01:10 AM
Nobody seems to be prepared to offer an answer to my question as to who selected Carpenter for the MA-7 mission once Slayton was ruled out. So, here's the answer.The decision to use Carpenter rather than Schirra, the original back-up, was made by Walter Williams, the Operations Team Leader. It was made in the light of the delays and the length of training for MA-6. Carpenter, as Glenn's back-up, was the most prepared for what was basically a repeat mission. |
KSCartist
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From: Titusville, FL USA
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 07-08-2012 04:18 AM
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Originally posted by MattJL:
Name the only astronaut to fly on all five shuttles, and name the shuttle they flew on twice.
Story Musgrave is the only astronaut to fly on all five orbiters. He flew twice on Challenger. STS-6 and STS-51F.
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Robert Pearlman
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From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-08-2012 09:01 AM
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Originally posted by MattJL:
Ordinary water in space themed bottles, and it was bottled by Canada Dry.
Close — it was Canada Dry Laboratories, but the water was triple distilled. The bottling, first in glass for Gemini 8 and then in a plastic capsule-shaped bottle for Gemini 9 was done to draw press interest in Canada Dry's role in the program, rather than sell to the public (source). |
jasonelam
Member Posts: 691
From: Monticello, KY USA
Registered: Mar 2007
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posted 07-08-2012 10:55 AM
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Originally posted by LM1:
Why Ron Evans? If you mean his brief time alone on Apollo 17, that was well before the Chinese Taikonaut solo mission. Evans was not last.
Good point...Thanks! |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 07-08-2012 12:08 PM
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Originally posted by MattJL:
R. G. Dun Palmas?
Yep, R.G. Dunn La Palma Deluxe (machine made) cigars. How was you know that? It took me a whole day, including photo enhancements to figure that out. |
MattJL
Member Posts: 57
From: New Jersey, US
Registered: May 2012
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posted 07-08-2012 12:37 PM
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Originally posted by Sy Liebergot:
How was you know that?
A lot of image searching (and a bit of luck) that lead me to a cigar aficionado forum. The image in question was taken in the MOCR during Apollo 11's moonwalk, and it showed the box (with an obscured label) sitting atop one of the consoles. |
Sy Liebergot
Member Posts: 501
From: Pearland, Texas USA
Registered: May 2003
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posted 07-08-2012 01:57 PM
Yeah, that's the pic of the box sitting on top of Kraft's console. Terrible cigars. |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 07-08-2012 02:44 PM
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Originally posted by MattJL:
Okay, this is a really wild guess, and is probably wrong, but each one of those insignia has something relating to the United States on them.
The answer I was looking for was that the patches for 9, 12, 15, and 16 do not have the Earth on them - the others do.
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canyon42
Member Posts: 238
From: Ohio
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 07-08-2012 05:41 PM
John Young and Jim Lovell share this distinction, alone of the M-G-A astronauts (possibly also one or more of the shuttle era astronauts, I cannot say for sure). What is it?
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Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1397
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 07-08-2012 06:27 PM
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Originally posted by canyon42:
John Young and Jim Lovell share this distinction, alone of the M-G-A astronauts...
They commanded their second Gemini missions but not their first Apollo assignments. |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 719
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 07-08-2012 06:42 PM
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Originally posted by canyon42:
John Young and Jim Lovell share this distinction...
Each flew two Gemini missions and two Apollo missions, their first Gemini as Pilot and their second as Command Pilot; then flew two Apollo missions apiece, the first as CMP and their second as Commander. Also, each flew a Saturn V rocket twice. |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 07-08-2012 06:44 PM
Who is the only astronaut to fly two shuttles' first flights? Also who was the only astronaut to fly two orbiters' second flights? |
Tom
Member Posts: 1597
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted 07-08-2012 07:16 PM
Cdr Bobko, flew on the first mission of Challenger and Atlantis. |
canyon42
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From: Ohio
Registered: Mar 2006
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posted 07-08-2012 09:08 PM
The Lovell/Young answer I was looking for is that they each flew a mission in a "subordinate" role after having commanded another mission, which is the gist of the responses given, so correct. The flying twice on Saturn Vs part doesn't distinguish them, though — Dave Scott and Gene Cernan did that as well. Okay, try this: NASA has used six different launch systems/rockets for manned flights (not counting "hitching" a ride on a Soyuz): Redstone, Atlas, Titan, Saturn 1B, Saturn V, and the shuttle stack. Unless I'm missing somebody, only four astronauts have launched on three different types out of the six (and nobody on four types). Who are they? |
OV-105
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From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 07-08-2012 09:55 PM
Young, Conrad, Schirra, and Stafford |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 07-08-2012 10:11 PM
How many cosmonauts flew on the Shuttle? |
moorouge
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From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 07-09-2012 02:40 AM
Who rescued the STS-1 launch with the judicious use of a pair of pliers? |
dogcrew5369
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From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 07-09-2012 10:51 AM
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Originally posted by moorouge:
Who rescued the STS-1 launch with the judicious use of a pair of pliers?
Loren Shriver used pliers to adjust Crippen's air hose. |
dogcrew5369
Member Posts: 750
From: Statesville, NC
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 07-09-2012 11:08 AM
quote:
Originally posted by LM-12:
How many cosmonauts flew on the Shuttle?
21. |
LM-12
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From: Ontario, Canada
Registered: Oct 2010
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posted 07-09-2012 11:17 AM
My count is also 21 and includes one-way trips. |
moorouge
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posted 07-09-2012 11:43 AM
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Originally posted by dogcrew5369:
Loren Shriver used pliers to adjust Crippen's air hose.
Yep - so you've read 'Wings in Orbit' as well.
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albatron
Member Posts: 2732
From: Stuart, Florida
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 07-09-2012 01:43 PM
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Originally posted by Cozmosis22:
Guess we could count Yeager and some other X-Plane pilots in there too...
Yeager didn't even get close to space. |
albatron
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From: Stuart, Florida
Registered: Jun 2000
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posted 07-09-2012 01:44 PM
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Originally posted by star51L:
If Schmitt and Irwin did the same on their flights, I guess the real answer is 8.
I do believe Schmitt did a stand up EVA, Irwin definitely did while Worden retrieved the canisters. He talks about his "moment in the sun" and Irwin only taking one photo and it's his "posterior". 
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moorouge
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Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 07-09-2012 02:46 PM
On Skylab, which astronaut got so annoyed with the draught blowing up his nose that he elected to sleep upside down? |
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