SpaceX Quiz Review

1. NASA’s space shuttle program was retired in __________.

• a. 1999
• b. 2019
• c. 2011
• d. 1991

2. Where is SpaceX located?

• a. Cape Canaveral, Florida
• b. Hawthorne, California
• c. Houston, Texas
• d. Moscow, Russia

3. Elon Musk became a self-made billionaire with companies like _______________ and _____________.

• a. eBay, General Motors
• b. MySpace, Samsung
• c. Apple, Intel
• d. PayPal, Tesla

4. The mission of SpaceX includes building a self-sustaining city on __________.

• a. the moon
• b. Venus
• c. Mars
• d. Saturn

5. How is the word “commercial” used in the article?

• a. to describe a government run company
• b. to describe advertisements for the SpaceX Falcon Heavy
• c. to describe a company not run by the government
• d. to describe a company shared n the stock market

6. In May of 2012, how did the ISS reach the Dragon to get supplies?

• a. with a robotic arm
• b. it coasted to it through space
• c. astronauts left the ISS in spacesuits
• d. it made a soft landing

7. What is the name of the dummy astronaut launched into space with Musk’s personal Tesla?

• a. Tesla
• b. Starman
• c. Elon 2
• d. Roadster

8. Musk’s “super high tech zero-g indicator” is actually _____________.

• a. a plush Earth toy
• b. a Tesla
• c. a toy car
• d. a dummy astronaut

1. Why is the constant testing of the Dragon capsule of SpaceX so important?

• a. The Dragon capsule will be responsible for human life on space missions one day.
• b. SpaceX has used the Dragon as a way to simply test their rockets.
• c. The humans that have traveled on the Dragon capsule have all survived.
• d. The Dragon capsule will one day be a part of the International Space Station.

3. Which claim below is most strongly supported by the Elon Musk Twitter graphic on the second page of the article?

• a. Astronauts must be able to navigate with zero gravity.
• b. Zero gravity is a scientific measure that can only be measured by complex machines.
• c. Twitter can influence customers to believe most anything.
• d. Evidence of zero gravity can be seen in any object that can float.