GRC 790 Newsletter #3 August 27th
Happy Holidays 2018
Space Quiz Answers:
- Mariner 2, launched in 1962 to Venus.
- It included a picture of a man and a woman, both without clothes.
- It had a gold plated record and compact phonograph with sounds from Earth, including greetings from 54 languages.
- Vikings 1 & 2.
- Pluto
- Galileo
- Jupiter, in order to gain enough momentum to break out of the ecliptic plane (which is not feasible with chemical rockets).
- The Ranger, the Lunar Orbiter, and the Surveyor. The Surveyor was the one that soft-landed on the Moon.
- She was a squirrel monkey. She eventually moved into the Alabama Space and Rocket Center, and lived there until her death in 1984. She is buried near the ASRC.
- The pair of spiders were on Skylab 2.
- Laika, a dog, went up in Sputnik 2 (nicknamed “Mutnik” because of the passenger).
- First Lady Astronaut Trainees. The program was dropped after President Eisenhower decreed that only military test pilots could try out for the astronaut corps; the military in those days would not allow women to be test pilots.
- Svetiana Savitskaya (Soyuz T-7, 1982) and Judy Resnik (Shuttle 41-D, 1984).
- Because they were twins. It was thought that twins could work better together and handle the stress of long duration flight better than non-twins.
- A Martini