The Apollo Space Program

Question 1

Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon at 2:56am GMT on which date in 1969?

Answer 1

July 21st

Question 2

What name was given to the series of booster rockets that were used to launch the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon?

Answer 2

Saturn V

Question 3

Crewed by Wally Schirra, Don Eisele and Walt Cunningham, which was the first manned Apollo flight?

Answer 3

Apollo 7

Question 4

Which astronaut honoured his wife Marilyn by naming a crater on the moon after her during the Apollo 8 mission?

Answer 4

Jim Lovell

Question 5

The Command Module was made by North American Aviation, but which company designed the Lunar Module for NASA?

Answer 5

Grumman

Question 6

Who was the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 1, set for launch in February 1967?

Answer 6

Virgil Grissom

Question 7

The Apollo 15 astronaut Dave Scott dropped a hammer and which other object before a TV camera to show the effect of lunar gravity?

Answer 7

A feather

Question 8

Ken Mattingly, the intended Command Module pilot of Apollo 13, had to give up his place to Jack Swigert because he had been exposed to which disease?

Answer 8

German measles

Question 9

According to the Apollo 11 flight plan, what were Armstrong and Aldrin supposed to do when they landed on the Moon. However, the plan was hastily revised so that they could step out onto the lunar surface immediately.

Answer 9

Sleep

Question 10

What unexpected occurrence affected the electrical and navigation systems during the launch of Apollo 12?

Answer 10

Lighting strike

Question 11

What was found to be leaking from Apollo 13 after the electrical short that triggered the explosion crippling the ship?

Answer 11

Oxygen

Question 12

What were the Apollo 10 command and lunar modules called?

Answer 12

Charlie Brown and Snoopy

Question 13

What did the Apollo 13 crew have to construct from various objects held together with duct tape?

Answer 13

A CO2 scrubber

Question 14

What was the name of the commander of Apollo 12’s crew, who became the third man to walk on the Moon?

Answer 14

Pete Conrad

Question 15

What name was given to the four-billion-year-old chunk of crystalline igneous rock that was found by Jim Irwin and brought back by Apollo 15?

Answer 15

The Genesis Rock

Question 16

What was always served up for the traditional astronaut’s’ breakfast on launch day?

Answer 16

Steak and eggs

Question 17

What was the name of the Apollo 13 lunar landing module used as a “space lifeboat” to return to Earth?

Answer 17

aquarius

Question 18

Who was the only astronaut from the Mercury programme to subsequently walk on the Moon?

Answer 18

Alan Shephard

Question 19

What was the name of the motorised vehicle first driven on the Moon by Irwin and Scott on the Apollo 15 mission?

Answer 19

Lunar Rover

Question 20

What was the name of the engineer, famous for his distinctive waistcoats, who was the flight director during Apollo 13’s successful return home?

Answer 20

Gene Kranz

Question 21

Buzz Aldrin titled his autobiography after a phrase he used on the Moon to describe the lunar landscape. What was the phrase?

Answer 21

Magnificent Desolation

Question 22

How did the astronauts on Apollo 8 know the precise moment that they had gone behind the Moon?

Answer 22

Radio silence

Question 23

What was the name of the geologist on Apollo 17 who became the first scientist to walk on the Moon?

Answer 23

Harrison Schmitt

Question 24

What was the number and type of club used by Alan Shepard to hit golf balls on the Moon?

Answer 24

6 Iron

Question 25

What was the colour of the soil discovered at Short Crater during the Apollo 17 mission that provided evidence of explosive volcanic activity on the Moon?

Answer 25

Orange

Question 26

In March 1969 who performed the first spacewalk of the Apollo program in order to test the spacesuit and life support backpack

Answer 26

Rusty Schweickart

Question 27

What ceremony did Buzz Aldrin perform in the Lunar Module to celebrate their safe landing on the Moon?

Answer 27

Communion

Question 28

Which former Gemini pilot was the Apollo 8 Mission Commander?

Answer 28

Frank Borman

Question 29

Which number Apollo was cancelled in January 1970 by Nasa Administrator Tom Paine because of budget constraints?

Answer 29

Apollo 20

Question 30

Who, as commander of Apollo 17, was the last human, so far, to walk on the surface of the moon?

Answer 30

Gene Cernan