Q 01/05

Mae Jemison's 1992 Shuttle flight lasted about how long?

A) Eight hours

B) Eight days

C) Eight weeks

D) Eight months

Answer · why

B) Eight days

Eight days: from launch on September 12 to landing on September 20, the crew of seven split into red and blue teams working 12-hour shifts, so the exp...

Q 02/05

Which Space Shuttle carried Jemison into orbit?

A) Discovery

B) Endeavour

C) Atlantis

D) Columbia

Answer · why

B) Endeavour

Endeavour: NASA's newest orbiter was making only its second flight, and schoolchildren across America had chosen its name, after the ship Captain Cook...

Q 03/05

Jemison was a co-investigator on an experiment aboard her Shuttle flight that studied which cells?

A) Bone cells

B) Nerve cells

C) Skin cells

D) Muscle cells

Answer · why

A) Bone cells

Bone cells: in weightlessness an astronaut's bones thin by about 1% a month, and Jemison, a physician, was one of the scientists behind the experiment...

Q 04/05

In which state was Jemison born?

A) Tennessee

B) Alabama

C) Georgia

D) Mississippi

Answer · why

B) Alabama

Alabama: Jemison was born in Decatur in 1956, but her family moved north when she was three, and it is the big city she grew up in, not her birthplace...

Q 05/05

In which city did Jemison grow up?

A) Detroit

B) Atlanta

C) Chicago

D) St. Louis

Answer · why

C) Chicago

Chicago: on the South Side in the 1960s, Jemison read her way through the library's science books, and she says she always knew she would go to space.