Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: on NASA’s moon missions
NASA’s next-generation moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion crew capsule, lifts off from launch complex 39-B for the uncrewed Artemis I mission to the moon, at Cape Canaveral, Florida on November 16, 2022.
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NASA’s new moon mission, Artemis, is named after…
- Greek goddess of sky and weather
- Greek goddess of wildlife and the hunt
- Greek goddess of barren lands
- Greek goddess of earthquakes
Artemis, in Greek religion, is the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation and of chastity and childbirth. She is the twin sister of Apollo.
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Artemis mission aims to return astronauts to the moon’s surface as early as…
Artemis, the Apollo lunar mission’s successor programme, aims at returning astronauts to the lunar surface this decade and establishing a sustainable base there as a stepping stone to future human exploration of Mars.
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To date, how many people have ever walked on the moon?
All the 12 were NASA astronauts, during six Apollo missions running from 1969 to 1972.
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Name the last man on the moon
- John Young
- Charles Duke
- James Irwin
- Gene Cernan
Gene Cernan, who returned to Earth with a message of “peace and hope for all mankind”, died in 2017 aged 82.
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Who among the following flew to the moon twice, but never walked on it?
- Michael Collins
- James A. Lovell Jr.
- Thomas Stafford
- Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr. served in Apollo 8 and Apollo 13 missions.
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