NASA Trivia
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100

The fifth crewed mission of the Apollo program and the first one to land humans on the moon

What is Apollo 11?

100

Helps slow the rocket down during its descent

What is a parachute?

100

The planet Elon Musk wants to colonize

What is Mars?

100

Of course, this is how Amazon does same-day shipping

100

Buzz Lightyear (the goat)

200

One of the most iconic spacecraft ever to be built. It performed 135 total missions and helped to construct the International Space Station.

What is the Space Shuttle?

200

These create drag and pressure to stabilize the rocket

What are fins?

200

The smallest planet in the solar system

What is Mercury?

200

Nah, it just explodes

200

Matthew McConaughey

300

After $10 billion and 30 years of development, it launched about one year ago and has since captured ultra-high resolution images of distant galaxies.

What is the James Webb Space Telescope?

300

The main structural component of a rocket

What is the body tube?

300

Mickey Mouse's dog

What is Pluto?

300

Yes, this is actually the most advanced rocket propulsion device known to humans

300

Matt Damon

400

In May of 2020, NASA partnered with this aerospace company to send American astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to space.

What is SpaceX?

400

Used to mount engines inside of the larger body tube

What is a centering ring?

400

A Soviet probe survived for a record time of 127 minutes on this planet

What is Venus?

400

Yes, obviously

400

Montclair's own Buzz Aldrin

500

Name of the launch vehicle to be used in NASA's Artemis Missions that will send humans back to the moon.

What is SLS?

500

These are pictured below and have a similar function to the parachute

What are streamers?

500

The name of the mathematical formula for the probability of finding life or advanced civilizations in the universe

What is the Drake equation?

500

They going to the moon

500

Chris Hadfield