Q 01/05

In which year was SpaceX founded?

A) 2004

B) 2006

C) 2002

D) 2010

Answer · why

C) 2002

Early staff were hired from TRW and Boeing into a warehouse in El Segundo, California.

Q 02/05

The Falcon rocket family is named after a spacecraft from which film franchise?

A) Star Trek

B) Star Wars

C) Alien

D) Battlestar Galactica

Answer · why

B) Star Wars

The Millennium Falcon lent its name; the Merlin and Kestrel engines are birds of prey.

Q 03/05

How many Falcon 1 launches failed before the rocket first reached orbit?

A) One

B) Two

C) Three

D) Four

Answer · why

C) Three

Tesla financing had also failed, leaving Musk and both companies near bankruptcy at the same time.

Q 04/05

From which Pacific atoll were all Falcon 1 launches conducted?

A) Johnston Atoll

B) Wake Island

C) Kwajalein

D) Midway Atoll

Answer · why

C) Kwajalein

The pad was on Omelek Island at the Reagan Test Site in the Marshall Islands.

Q 05/05

Falcon 1's only commercial payload, on its final flight in 2009, came from which country?

A) Indonesia

B) South Korea

C) Malaysia

D) Brazil

Answer · why

C) Malaysia

RazakSAT rode the fifth and last Falcon 1 in July 2009 before the rocket was retired.