Q 01/05

Who signed the law creating NASA?

A) Harry Truman

B) Dwight Eisenhower

C) Lyndon Johnson

D) Richard Nixon

Answer · why

B) Dwight Eisenhower

Dwight Eisenhower signed the act on 29 July 1958; a former general himself, he had asked Congress for a civilian agency rather than hand space to the ...

Q 02/05

Who was the first American in space?

A) Alan Shepard

B) Gus Grissom

C) Neil Armstrong

D) Jim Lovell

Answer · why

A) Alan Shepard

Alan Shepard made a 15-minute suborbital hop on 5 May 1961, three weeks after Yuri Gagarin had orbited Earth; an inner-ear disorder then grounded him ...

Q 03/05

Which astronaut circled the Moon alone while his two crewmates made the first landing in 1969?

A) Michael Collins

B) Buzz Aldrin

C) Gene Cernan

D) Jim Lovell

Answer · why

A) Michael Collins

Michael Collins stayed with the command module, losing all radio contact for 48 minutes of every lap behind the Moon; he wrote that what he felt there...

Q 04/05

What famous space telescope was launched in 1990?

A) James Webb Space Telescope

B) Chandra X-ray Observatory

C) Spitzer Space Telescope

D) Hubble Space Telescope

Answer · why

D) Hubble Space Telescope

The Hubble Space Telescope went up with a mirror ground to the wrong shape, which blurred its first images; astronauts fitted corrective optics on a s...

Q 05/05

Which rocket sent Artemis I on its uncrewed trip around the Moon in November 2022?

A) Falcon Heavy

B) Space Launch System

C) Vulcan Centaur

D) Delta IV Heavy

Answer · why

B) Space Launch System

The Space Launch System first flew on 16 November 2022, after a faulty sensor reading and a hydrogen leak had scrubbed two attempts and Hurricane Ian ...