Astronomy Question: Operation Morning Light

Credit: Image by Luca Finardi from Pixabay

Multiple Choice: In terms of space history, what was Operation Morning Light?

A. An incident involving a failed rocket motor on the Soviet Union’s Mir space station.
B. The first commercial aircraft to communicate with a NASA satellite.
C. A commercial effort to build a suborbital reusable manned spacecraft.
D. A falling Soviet satellite that almost created a nuclear crisis.

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Astronomy Question: The Asteroid Belt

Image (Credit): Asteroid 433 Eros, which is the first asteroid ever orbited by a spacecraft, Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous – Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), in 1998. (NASA)

Multiple Choice: What is the average distance between the asteroids located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter?

A. 4,000 miles
B. 50,000 miles
C. 600,000 miles
D. 1.1 million miles

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Astronomy Question: Star Trek and Founding Species

Multiple Choice: In the television series Star Trek, which of the following was not a founding species of the United Federation of Planets, a collection of governments based on universal liberty and equality?

A. Vulcans
B. Andorians
C. Tellarites
D. Betazoids

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