Shuttle Missions

Question 1

Who was the first American woman in Space

In what year and in what vehicle

Answer 1

Sally Ride

She first flew on Challenger Shuttle Flight STS-7 in 1983

Question 2

In what year was the first shuttle flight, and in what year was the final shuttle flight

How many missions did it perform

Answer 2

1981

2011

(135 missions, 133 sucessful re-entries)

Question 3

What was the name of the sub-orbital shuttle, and when was its first free flight

What was the name of the first shuttle to go into space (on what anniversary)

Answer 3

Enterprise

First free flight in 1977

STS-1 Columbia (12 April 1981) [20th anniversary of Gagarin’s flights into space]

Question 4

What are the names of the orbitting shuttles

In what order did they first fly. Which two were lost an when?

Which was last into space

Where are they now

Answer 4

Columbia (1981) - lost in 2003 on re-entry

Challenger (1983) - lost in 1986 (named after HMS Challenger of Ocean survey fame)

Discovery (1984) - Smithsonian D.C (named after a series of HMS Discoverys including the Arctic/Antarctic exploration fame).

Atlantis (1985) - last shuttle into space in 2011 - Kennedy Space Centre

Endeavour (1992) - California Space Centre (after HMS Endeavour, Capt Cook’s ship)

The Enterprise is on Intrepid in New York (named after the Star-trek enterprise)