83042 Easy Trivia Questions
83042 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
What was the name of ESA's uncrewed cargo spacecraft series for the ISS?
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Automated Transfer Vehicle
Who was the first woman to command the ISS?
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Peggy Whitson
Which SpaceX mission launched the first crewed Crew Dragon flight to the ISS?
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SpaceX Demo-2
Which first all-private astronaut mission visited the ISS in 2022?
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Axiom Mission 1
What is the NASA name of the ISS Node 1 module?
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Unity
Which private company operated Axiom Mission 1 to the ISS?
Answer
Axiom Space
Which company built the BEAM expandable module attached to the ISS?
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Bigelow Aerospace
What is the ISS's SATCAT number?
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25544
Which spacecraft carried the first resident ISS crew into orbit?
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Soyuz TM-31
What does the abbreviation ISS stand for?
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International Space Station
What boundary around a black hole is the point of no return for light and matter?
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Event horizon
What event occurs when a star is torn apart by a black hole's tidal forces?
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Tidal disruption event
What radius gives the event horizon size of a non-rotating black hole?
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Schwarzschild radius
What glowing disk of orbiting gas can surround a feeding black hole?
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Accretion disk
What kind of object is Sagittarius A*?
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Supermassive black hole
Which theory of gravity first predicted black holes as solutions to its field equations?
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General relativity
What hypothetical black hole type could have formed soon after the Big Bang?
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Primordial black hole
Which English natural philosopher proposed "dark stars" in 1783?
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John Michell
Which physicist popularized the term "black hole" in 1967?
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John Archibald Wheeler
Which NASA X-ray observatory launched in 1999 studies black holes?
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Chandra X-ray Observatory
What popular term describes extreme stretching by a black hole's tidal forces?
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Spaghettification
What disk of hot matter can form as gas spirals into a black hole?
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Accretion disk
Which German physicist gave his name to the radius of a non-rotating black hole?
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Karl Schwarzschild
At a black hole's event horizon, the escape velocity equals what?
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Speed of light
What boundary around a black hole marks the point beyond which light cannot escape?
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Event horizon
Which space agency designed JWST's FGS/NIRISS instrument?
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Canadian Space Agency
Which institute operates the James Webb Space Telescope for NASA?
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Space Telescope Science Institute
Which city is home to the institute that operates JWST?
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Baltimore
Which company operated the Ariane flight that launched JWST?
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Arianespace
On what date did JWST enter service?
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12 July 2022
Which company was the primary contractor for JWST?
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Northrop Grumman
Which NASA center managed JWST's telescope development?
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Goddard Space Flight Center
Which European agency partnered with NASA on JWST?
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European Space Agency