Take the Space Transportation System Quiz

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Welcome to our Friday quiz!

Today we’re going to be looking at the Space Transportation System (Space Shuttle). Good Luck!

This quiz will be available, but prize eligibility will end on Sunday at midnight US EDT.

This quiz, one prize: (drawn from the high scores): One copy of our STS-1 1-DVD set. (If you already have this set I will make a substitution)

PLEASE NOTE: We do not do anything with your email address. If you click the sign up button for our newsletter, your email will be added to that list, otherwise we only ask for the email so that we may contact you in case you’re the prize winner. They aren’t kept or used in any other way.

Since we’re offering prizes we ask that you take the quiz only once, and that you do NOT use the Google machine to give us your answers. Good Luck!

Space Transportation System: You'll be challenged with 10 questions on the Space Transportation System (early Space Shuttle). Since we consider our quiz candidates to be a competent lot, but this quiz is one of our tougher tests, we've established a passing grade on this quiz of 70%. The quiz features ten questions, each worth ten points.

Name Email
1.

What later Space Shuttle commander would hear of congressional approval on the shuttle while he was walking on the Moon?

1 out of 10
2.

What was the name of the contractor awarded the original contract to produce the Space Shuttle External Tank?

2 out of 10
3.

How many Space Shuttle free flights were there during the Approach and Landing Tests?

3 out of 10
4.

What was the first Space Shuttle mission to launch from Pad 39B?

4 out of 10
5.

What was the only shuttle mission to land at White Sands, NM?

5 out of 10
6.

How many space shuttle missions were launched from SLC-6 at Vandenberg?

6 out of 10
7.

What liquid-fueled upper stage was to be carried in the shuttle payload bay for use with planetary probes, with the first mission scheduled to be Galileo on May, 1986?

7 out of 10
8.

How many Space Shuttle flights were considered to be "research and development" flights, with a crew of two, before the Space Shuttle became "operational?"

8 out of 10
9.

One of the first tasks planned for the Space Shuttle was to boost Skylab into a higher orbit. Why didn't this occur?

9 out of 10
10.

What was the last Space Shuttle orbiter to fly (in space)?

10 out of 10



4 Responses

  1. Dave W
    | Reply

    Wow, I did painfully bad with 30%. Looks like I need to start watching STS DVDs!

    Great quiz, Mark!

  2. CHRIS B
    | Reply

    Man, only missed one. I thought I nailed this one.

  3. Michael Nagle
    | Reply

    Had to think hard on this one guys. Very interesting!

  4. Steve Jochums
    | Reply

    This wasn’t all that hard, if you’ve been watching the program continuously from STS-1 to STS-135. The Space Shuttle and I grew up and grew old together, so I knew these answers all too well.

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