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Which United States President committed the nation to ‘landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth’?
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John F. Kennedy
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What manned NASA project preceded the Apollo missions, paving the way for contemporary understandings of long-duration spaceflight?
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Project Gemini
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Who was the chief architect of the Saturn V rocket?
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Wernher von Braun
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How many stages were part of the Saturn V rocket?
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three
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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?
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Statue of Liberty
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The Greek god Apollo, from which the program derived its name, is the god of what?
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Light, music and the Sun
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Name all three astronauts who perished in Apollo 1:
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Gus Grissom
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Ed White
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Roger Chaffee
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What is the name of the massive building where the final assembly of the Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft took place?
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Vehicle Assembly Building
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From what book of the Christian Bible did the Apollo 8 astronauts read during a live television broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1968?
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Genesis
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At one point, the Lunar Module (LM) was called the ‘LEM’. What do these initials stand for?
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Lunar Excursion Module
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What was the name of Apollo 11’s Lunar Module?
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Eagle
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Apollo 11’s landing site was located within what lunar ‘sea’?
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Sea of Tranquility
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How many manned Apollo missions landed on the moon?
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six
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Which portion of the Lunar Module remained on the moon?
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Descent Stage
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What is the technical name of the ‘moon buggy’ used during the final three Apollo moon missions?
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Lunar Roving Vehicle
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Name the two Mercury astronauts who travelled into space as part of the Apollo missions:
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Wally Schirra
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Alan Shepard
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Name the four astronauts who were prime crew members of multiple Apollo missions:
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Gene Cernan
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Jim Lovell
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Dave Scott
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John Young
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Who was the only scientist to have walked on the moon?
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Harrison Schmitt
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After splashdown, what portion of the Apollo spacecraft would be retrieved?
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Command Module
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Much of the hardware used in the Apollo missions was employed during which space station program?
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Skylab
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Speaking technically, 'Project Apollo', as it were, ended with Apollo 17. The Apollo spacecraft used for the Apollo-Soyuz mission was unnumbered and not considered part of Project Apollo as its objective—while definitely significant in its own way—diverged from the objectives of the other Apollo missions (namely, achieving crewed lunar landings). While the missions dubbed Apollo 7-10 and 13 did not result in lunar landings, these missions were either necessary precursors to successful landings or, in the case of Apollo 13, a failed attempt.