Multiple Choice: What was the name of the main spaceship in the 1979 movie Alien?
A. Athena
B. Maginot
C. Nostromo
D. Prometheus
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Multiple Choice: Which statement below is NOT TRUE about the Moon?
A. Lunar dust smells like a chemical solvent.
B. Some craters on the Moon are colder than the surface of Pluto.
C. The Moon has an atmosphere.
D. The Moon orbits the Sun rather than the Earth.
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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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Multiple Choice: The craters on the Martian moon Phobos were named after the works of what author?
A. Erasmus
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Jules Verne
D. Voltaire
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Two-Part Multiple Choice:
Part 1: When the US space station Sklyab fell from the sky in 1979, what country was hit with falling debris?
A. Argentina
B. Australia
C. New Zealand
D. Papua New Guinea
Part 2: What was the size of the fine that this country tried to impose on NASA as compensation for the falling debris?
A. $400
B. $40,000
C: $4 million
D: $14 million
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