Test your Space Shuttle knowledge

[Fnaar]

BBC quiz in the style of the Friday ones

4/7 for me

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14066462

 

[Spinney]

BBC quiz in the style of the Friday ones

4/7 for me

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-14066462

5/7 (much of it guesswork!)

 

[accountantpete]

5/7 - Tell Ian to stick his Friday quiz

 

[ianrauk]

Up your Pete...

5/7 for me..

 

[cisamcgu]

7/7 One a complete guess, the others an example of rather sad, geeky knowledge

 

[Mr Phoebus]

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with steam coming out of it.
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[ianrauk]

I always wanted to go to Florida to watch a space shuttle launch. Oh well....

On another note the Challenger explosion is one of those 'always remember where you were' moments for me..

 

[ACS]

4/7 yawn

 

[Shaun]

I went home for lunch once to watch a shuttle launch on TV. It was delayed and I flat refused to go back to school until I saw it go up.

Don't think it was the first one though as that was 13:00 on Sunday 12th April, 1981:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg

 

[ianrauk]

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We went to the space centre and were enthralled to see the launch trolley thing crawling back to the hanger at 0 mph. We'd missed a launch by about a week.
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A lucky bugger to have even seen that. I'm very envious..

 

[Fnaar]

On another note the Challenger explosion is one of those 'always remember where you were' moments for me..

Me too. I was cleaning a floor in a mental handicap hospital where I'd previously been a nurse, the launch was on TV, and I was wondering what the hell I was doing with my life.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

A lucky bugger to have even seen that. I'm very envious..

When I went to Florida I saw a space shuttle take-off, for that reason alone I'm rounding up my 5/7 to 7/7!

 

[TheDoctor]

7/7.
A couple of years ago I saw the shuttle (I forget which one) just behind the ISS one evening.
The shuttle was just behind the ISS, I mean. I was near Walkern, some 22000 miles lower down.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

5/7 for me.
I got the one wrong about the first Woman, I said Lisa Nowak (I really should have known better - I was swithering between her and Sally Ride) and the one about the distance the Shuttles have traveled, I said the largest distance as, well, they HAVE traveled a phenomenally large distance over the years!

The rest were a combination of knowledge and educated guesses.

 

[redflightuk]

I travelled all the way to Stansted to see one. Can't remember which one it was but it was riding piggyback on the 747. It had been to the Paris air show and stopped for a couple of days. The apron it parked on was opened so you could walk around and under the plane. The day it left for home it came out over Stevenage so we had a good view of it making a very slow and steady climb. I have some pictures somewhere, if i can find them i'll scan them and post them.