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Enterprise Space Shuttle Quiz
Difficulty level 6
Example Quiz 1
  • 1. What was NASA's official designation for Space Shuttle Enterprise?
    OV - 099
    OV - 100
    OV - 101

 

  • 2. Enterprise could not fly in space because,
    It had neither engines nor a heat shield
     It had engines but no heat shield
    It had a heat shield but no engines

 

  • 3. What was the original name, suggested for Space Shuttle Enterprise?
    Challenger
    Pioneer
    Constitution

 

  • 4. Enterprise was named after,
    The spaceship featured on the television series Star Trek
     The first commercial air craft
    The first US satellite launched into space

 

  • 5. The first mission of the Enterprise was launched using,
    A Saturn V rocket
    A single solid rocket booster
    A Boeing 747 aircraft

     

  • 6. It was originally planned to refit Enterprise for space flight to make it the second Space Shuttle. What prevented this from happening?
    Enterprise was damaged during test flights
    NASA wanted to preserve it as an exhibit
    Change in the final design of the orbiter vehicle

     

  • 7. Where was the 'approach and landing tests' (ALT) of the Enterprise carried out?
    Cape Canaveral Launch site
    Dryden Flight Research Center
     Vendenberg Air Force Base

 

  • 8. How many test flights were carried out using Enterprise during approach and landing tests?
    13 flights
     18 flights
    25 flights

 

  • 9. What happened to Enterprise after retirement?
    Parts were removed to build Space Shuttle Columbia
    Exhibited at Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
     Used to train astronauts

 

  • 10. Following the retirement of Discovery Space Shuttle, Enterprise will be moved to,
    Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum
    Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
    Johnson Space Center

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