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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Which United States President committed the nation to ‘landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth’?	John F. Kennedy	100%
How many stages were part of the Saturn V rocket?	three	90%
What was the name of Apollo 11’s Lunar Module?	Eagle	84%
From the bottom of the engine bells to the top of its escape tower, the Saturn V rocket stood nearly 20 meters taller than what famous New York City landmark?	Statue of Liberty	84%
How many manned Apollo missions landed on the moon?	six	83%
Apollo 11’s landing site was located within what lunar ‘sea’?	Sea of Tranquility	82%
What manned NASA project preceded the Apollo missions, paving the way for contemporary understandings of long-duration spaceflight?	Project Gemini	79%
Who was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket?	Wernher von Braun	73%
From what book of the Christian Bible did the Apollo 8 astronauts read during a live television broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1968?	Genesis	64%
Name all three astronauts who perished in Apollo 1:	Gus Grissom	55%
	Ed White	51%
The Greek god Apollo, from which the program derived its name, is the god of what?	Light, music and the Sun	51%
	Jim Lovell	48%
	Alan Shepard	45%
At one point, the Lunar Module (LM) was called the ‘LEM’. What do these initials stand for?	Lunar Excursion Module	43%
What is the name of the massive building where the final assembly of the Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft took place?	Vehicle Assembly Building	43%
After splashdown, what portion of the Apollo spacecraft would be retrieved?	Command Module	42%
	Roger Chaffee	42%
What is the technical name of the ‘moon buggy’ used during the final three Apollo moon missions?	Lunar Roving Vehicle	38%
Much of the hardware used in the Apollo missions was employed during which space station program?	Skylab	37%
Which portion of the Lunar Module remained on the moon?	Descent Stage	31%
Name the four astronauts who were prime crew members of multiple Apollo missions:	Gene Cernan	31%
Who was the only scientist to have walked on the moon?	Harrison Schmitt	28%
	John Young	28%
Name the two Mercury astronauts who travelled into space as part of the Apollo missions:	Wally Schirra	26%
	Dave Scott	20%