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Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
What's special about this aircraft?
It was featured in the 6 million dollar man film
It was the 1st AWACS aircraft
It was the only aircraft ever to have a functioning nuclear reactor on board
It was capable of flying higher and further than anything else in 1960
How many times has Spongebob been to space ?
15
Six
Four
Eight
Who said this when they were playing Space
"Mission control this is Commander (a) . I'm getting an MGS warning light on the link monitor control subsystem. I'm requesting reallocation of the main ohms fire through the CDS at level 6, please advise."
The day on which the Sun’s direct rays cross the celestial equator is called:
The solstice
The equinox
The aphelion
The ecliptic
What show do these two appear in ?
(a)
How many planets are there in the solar system ?
11
9
8
10
Who invented the telescope?
Hypatia
Hans Lippershey
Johannes Kepler
Galileo
Which of these objects is the farthest from the Sun?
Kuiper belt
90377 Sedna
Neptune
Saturn
What's this movie called?
2001
Event Horizon
Solaris
Aliens
What term describes the alignment of three celestial bodies?
syzygy
symbology
suzerainty
sizzle
Who said:
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
(a)
What is the visible part of the Sun called?
the lithosphere
the photosphere
the atmosphere
the stratosphere
Sunsets on Mars appear in which colour?
Brown
Red
Blue
Green
How many landmarks on Earth can we see from space?
7
8
9
11
In 2001 US restaurant chain Pizza Hut became the first company to deliver pizza to the International Space Station on behalf of Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Usachov, who developed a craving while in Earth orbit.
The pizza was delivered via a Russian Soyuz rocket to the ISS, Because humans' taste receptors are dulled slightly in space, Pizza Hut had to add extra salt and spices to the dish, while salami was used rather than pepperoni due to its longer shelf life.
How much did Pizza hut pay ?
Offered free pizza to all NASA employees for 1 year
$100,000
$700,000
$1,000,000
How fast does the ISS travel ?
0mph - its in orbit silly !
28,000 KMH
100 KMH
50,000 KMH
What's this ?
The Apollo 11 computer
A prop from Star Trek
A thruster control from ISS
A space suit control system
What's the function of this wiring ?
Its a power regulator
Its heat sink
Its the CPU
Its rope memory for Apollo 11
What's Margaret Hamilton standing next to (& she and her team mostly wrote)?
Parts lists for Apollo 11
Apollo 11 luminary source code
NASA calculations
Mapping information
What is Tiangong ?
North Korea's prototype spaceship
The Chinese Space station
The spaceship in Blade Runner
The Japanese shuttle
