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American Patriot Quiz
Christa McAuliffe and the
Challenger
1. What subject did Christa McAuliffe teach?
Science
Math
Social Studies
English
2. After being selected by NASA to be a civilian mission specialist on the Challenger, where did McAuliffe train?
Johnson Space Center
Kennedy Space Center
Stennis Space Center
NASA headquarters
3. What title did McAuliffe give the televised lesson she planned to teach from space?
The Ultimate Field Trip
Lessons from Outer Space
Lessons from Orbit
Space Travel Diary
4. How many missions did the Challenger spacecraft complete before it exploded?
zero
3
6
9
5. Who was the mission commander aboard the Challenger that fateful day?
Francis Scobee
Ronald McNair
Gregory Jarvis
Michael Smith
6. Complete this line from Reagan's infamous speech following the Challenger tragedy: "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the __________ ."
bold
brave
young
United States of America
7. Why did investigators determine the o-rings on the rocket booster failed on the morning of the launch?
the weather was too wet
the weather was too warm
the weather was too cold
the weather was too foggy
8. Which of the following people was NOT on the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger tragedy?
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Sally Ride
William Rogers
9. Navy divers aboard which vessel located the crew compartment of the Challenger shuttle on the bottom of the ocean six weeks after the tragedy?
USS Enterprise
USS Intrepid
USS New Hampshire
USS Preserver
10. McAuliffe's alternate for the Challenger flight, a former math teacher named Barbara Morgan, subsequently served as mission specialist on which shuttle flight?
Endeavor
Columbia
Discovery
Atlantis
Click the "Submit" button above to see your results.
On August 27, 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the NASA Teacher in Space Project, which would send the first civilian, an educator who could communicate with students in orbit, into space. Christa McAuliffe was later selected from 11,000 applicants. She, along with six other crew members, died in January 1986 when the
Challenger
exploded after launch.
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