Apollo missions

Question 1

Who were the crew of Apollo 10, the dress rehearsal

what was the call sign of the CSM and LM

Answer 1

Command: Thomas Stafford

Com mod: John Young

LM Pilot: Eugene Cernan

CSM: Charlie Brown

LM: Snoopy

Question 2

Who were the crew of Apollo 9

what did it prove

Answer 2

Com: James McDivitt

Com Mod Pilot: David Scott

LM pilot: Russell Schweickart

It proved the LM worthy of manned spaceflight

-After launching on March 3, 1969, the crewmen spent ten days in low Earth orbit. They performed the first manned flight of a LM, the first docking and extraction of a LM, two spacewalks (EVA), and the second docking of two manned spacecraft

Question 3

Who were the crew of Apollo 8 and what was its two claims to fame

Answer 3

Com: Frank Borman

Com Mod: James Lovell

LM pilot: William Anders

First manned spacecraft to leave Earth Orbit (they travelled around the moon)

It was famous for the ‘earth rise’ photo

Question 4

Who died in Apollo 1

Answer 4

Virgil ‘Gus’ Grissom (Com)

Ed White (Senior Pilot)

Roger Chaffee (Pilot)

killed in a fire during a launch pad test

Question 5

Can you name all the men who landed on the moon - qudos if you can (and extra for their landers)

Answer 5

A 11: Eagle: Armstrong and Aldrin (easy)

A12:Intrepid: Charles “Pete” Conrad, Alan Bean

A 14: Antares: Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell

A 15: Falcon: David Scott, James Irwin

A 16: Orion: John Young, Charles Duke

A 17: Challenger: Eugene Cernan, Harrison “Jack” Schmitt

Question 6

The Lunar Roving Vehicle was used for which three missions

Answer 6

Apollo 15, 16 & 17

Question 7

Who were the crew of Apollo 13.

What was the CSM called

What was the LM called

Answer 7

Commader James Lovell

Command Module Pilot “Jack” Swigert (he replaced Ken Mattingly who had German Measles)

Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise

CSM: Odyssey

LM: Aquarius

Question 8

How many manned moon landings have there

been?

In what year was the last one?

Answer 8

six landins beginning with Apollo 11 on 20 July 1969 and Apollo 17 in 1972

Question 9

How much lunar rock did the Apollo astronauts return

Answer 9

380kg

Question 10

Who was dropped from the Apollo 3 Mission

When did he go to the moon though

Answer 10

Ken Mattingly

However, he was the Command Module pilot on Apollo 16

Question 11

Which Apollo crew walked to a previous moon probe

name mission, and probe

Answer 11

Apollo 12

Surveyor 3

Question 12

Who played golf on the moon

Answer 12

Alan Shephard - Apollo 14

Question 13

Where did the Apollo Missions land

Answer 13

Apollo 11 - Sea of Tranquility

Apollo 12 - Ocean of Storms

Apollo 14 - (Fra Mauro) Ocean of Storms

Apollo 15 - Hadley / Appenines - Sea of Rain

Apollo 16 - Descartes Highlands

Apollo 17 - Taurus-Littrow valley

Question 14

When was the Apollo - Soyuz Test Project

who were astronauts on both sides

Answer 14

1975

Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton

Alexei Leonov, Valeri Kubasov

Question 15

Between what years was SkyLab in orbit

How did the crew get to it

Answer 15

1973 - 1979

It was launched unmanned on a Saturn V (SL-1)

but the crews were launched on Saturn Ibs

Question 16

How many crewed flights were there to Skylab

How many astronauts therefore went there?

Answer 16

3 Missions

each with 3 crews

Question 17

Who was the commander of the first Mission to Skylab and helped mend its many problems

Who lead the second mission?

what do they have in common

Answer 17

Pete Conrad (led the first Mission)

Alan Bean (led the second)

They were both Apollo 12 astronauts

Question 18

Which legendary astronaut was also the first Space Shuttle Commander

How many times did he go into space in the end?

Answer 18

John Young

6 times

2 x Gemini

2 x Apollo

2 x Shuttle

Question 19

Which Apollo astronaut also flew the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests

Answer 19

Fred Haise

Question 20

Which Apollo Mission was the first flight of the Saturn V

Answer 20

Apollo 4

Question 21

What was the purpose of Apollo 5

Answer 21

Test the CSM

Question 22

Which Apollo flight was intended to be an unmanned moon shot

what happened in the end

what did it achieve

Answer 22

Apollo 6 (Saturn V)

It had engine failures, so it repeated the Apollo 4 flight profile instead

However, it was good enough to allow NASA to believe the Saturn V was safe for crewed launches.

Question 23

Who flew in Apollo 7

What was it for, and what was it notable for?

Answer 23

Walter Shirra

Walt Chunningham

Donn Eisele

It was the first crewed CSM flight. It was through a Saturn Ib not a Saturn V

It was notable for the poor relations between ground crew and astronauts, because the astronauts all had colds, and space is a bad place to have a cold!

Question 24

Which early Apollo Missions never were

Answer 24

Apollo 2 and 3