Q 01/05

From which NASA center do the Artemis program's Moon rockets lift off?

A) Johnson Space Center

B) Jet Propulsion Laboratory

C) Kennedy Space Center

D) Goddard Space Flight Center

Answer · why

C) Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center in Florida: each rocket rides to the pad at about one mile an hour on a tracked carrier built in the 1960s to haul Saturn V Moon ...

Q 02/05

Artemis, the Moon program's namesake, is best known in Greek myth as the goddess of what?

A) The sea

B) The hunt

C) Wisdom

D) War

Answer · why

B) The hunt

The hunt and wild animals were her domain. NASA picked her because she is the twin sister of Apollo, and the new program set out to land the first wom...

Q 03/05

Which president signed Space Policy Directive 1, the order that sent NASA back toward the Moon?

A) Barack Obama

B) George W. Bush

C) Joe Biden

D) Donald Trump

Answer · why

D) Donald Trump

Donald Trump signed it in December 2017, scrapping NASA's plan to send astronauts to an asteroid and ordering a return to the Moon first, with Mars to...

Q 04/05

Which NASA administrator announced the Artemis name in May 2019?

A) Charles Bolden

B) Bill Nelson

C) Jim Bridenstine

D) Jared Isaacman

Answer · why

C) Jim Bridenstine

Jim Bridenstine revealed the name on a call about an extra $1.6 billion for a 2024 landing, saying it suited a program that would carry the first woma...

Q 05/05

Which cancelled NASA program was Artemis's Orion spacecraft originally designed for?

A) VentureStar

B) Project Prometheus

C) Space Station Freedom

D) Constellation

Answer · why

D) Constellation

Constellation was cancelled in 2010 after a review found it could not reach the Moon without far more money. Congress kept its Orion capsule and order...