Intrepid
Space Race
Astronauts
Missions
Technology
100
The first astronaut the Intrepid picked up as a primary recovery vessel.
Who is Scott Carpenter?
100
The name of the Soviet Union's human-made satellite launched on October 4, 1957.
What is Sputnik?
100
First person to set foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
100
Name given to sequence of missions to the moon which included the first man to walk on the moon.
What are the Apollo missions?
100
Method used to preserve yummy ice cream for astronauts
What is freeze dried
200
The Intrepid participated in recovery for NASA during this decade
What is the 1960's?
200
Name of early federal agency created in response to Sputnik.
What is NACA - National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics?
200
First American in space
Who is Alan Shepard?
200
What are the names of the two NASA space shuttles that were lost.
What are Columbia and Challenger?
200
Name of the second generation of NASA space capsules after Mercury
What is the Gemini capsule
300
This is the name of the capsule that Intrepid recovered containing John Young and Gus Grissom
What is the Gemini 3 "Molly Brown"?
300
The United States' first satellite launched on January 31, 1958.
What is the Explorer 1?
300
Oldest astronaut in space, aged 77 aboard STS-95 and first American to orbit the earth
Who is John Glenn?
300
Probe in orbit around Saturn obtaining scientific information
What is the Cassini probe?
300
Manned spacecraft with a crew capacity of 7 and the ability to land on runways
What is the space shuttle
400
The name of Scott Carpenter's capsule
What is the Aurora 7?
400
The first human in space
Who is Yuri Gagarin, Soviet Cosmonaut?
400
Largest number of humans in space at one time?
What is 13?
400
Name given to NASA's first major astronaut program
What is the Mercury program
400
Research vehicle that propels itself across the surface of Mars
What is a Mars rover?
500
Ocean where the Intrepid picked up Scott Carpenter
What is the North Atlantic Ocean?
500
First animals launched into space in 1946.
What are fruit flies?
500
This Russian cosmonaut had the longest time in space (803 days, 9 hours, 39 minutes)
Who is Sergei K Krikalev?
500
Name two of the 4 NASA probe missions that have left the solar system.
What are Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2?
500
Orange flavored space age astronaut beverage that found its away into supermarkets here on Earth
What is TANG
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