3/30: Space Trivia!!

What planet is the densest in our solar system and also has only one natural satellite?

What city is NASA's Mission Control Center (MCC) in? (just the city name)

What is the name of the 1997 program that sent the first Rover to Mars? (Mark Watney in the movie “The Martian” uses this to communicate with command back on Earth, and its Rover component was called the Sojourner)

At what college did JFK read his famous, “We choose to go to the Moon” speech in 1962 to encourage Americans to back the Space Race? (Hint: this college is located in the same city as NASA’s Mission Control Center)

What was the year of the first human moon landing?

• 1962

• 1969

• 1972

• 1965

What is the name of the NASA human spaceflight program that has the goal of landing “the first woman and the next man” on the Moon by 2024?

What was the nonfiction book and movie written by Margot Lee Shetterly that told the untold story of three black women who helped the US win the Space Race?

What is the name of the pair of gold-anodized aluminum plaques that were placed on board a 1972 and 1973 spacecraft of the SAME NAME that featured a pictorial message, in case either spacecraft was intercepted by intelligent extraterrestrial life.

Designer of the aforementioned pioneer plaque, this long time professor of Harvard narrated the award-winning 1980 television series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage”, which became the most widely watched series in the history of American public television. Give the name of this professor/astronomer.

What is the name of a region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape its event horizon?