For the Benefit of All: The NASA Quiz

Between 1958 and 1961, Project Mercury put six men into space, including Alan Shepard, the first American in space.

Skylab was damaged at launch, but in 1973 the first crew was able to deploy a replacement heat shield and fix some jammed solar panels.

Each primary crew member had a flight suit, a training suit and a backup flight suit. Depending on the specific Apollo mission, the suits cost roughly $100,000 to $400,000 each.

Columbia's first launch was on April 12, 1981. It was destroyed during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003.

When NASA was created in 1958, it took over NACA, including all of its employees and research projects.

TIROS-1's success at observing weather significantly improved weather forecasting and led to the network of weather satellites in use today.

Albert I was a rhesus monkey, launched by NASA precursor NACA in 1948 aboard a V-2 Blossom rocket. The early animal launches were not intended to be recoverable, so all the animals died on impact when the rockets returned to Earth.

It was a tradition to bring currency on NASA flights then sell it as "space-flown currency" to collectors. However, 100 $2 bills were accidentally left on the lunar surface by the Apollo 15 crew.

Mariner 4 flew past Mars at a distance of roughly 6,100 miles in 1965. Mariner 3 and several Russian Mars missions had previously failed to reach the red planet.

The explosion forced the crew and NASA engineers to make fast, unorthodox repairs under extreme pressure to return the crew to Earth safely.

Apollo 17 put two men on the lunar surface in 1972. Not only has no human walked on the moon since then, but no human has left low Earth orbit.

Before reaching Eisenhower's desk, Congress added a declaration of policy to the bill that "activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind."

Construction on Enterprise was completed in 1976. It flew a series of atmospheric test flights in 1977 but was never launched into space.

Performed by vibrating the rover's soil analysis tool at different frequencies, "Happy Birthday" was played to celebrate its one-year anniversary since arrival on Mars.

The record for most astronauts selected in a single year is 35, which happened in both 1978 and 1996.

Tereshkova went to space for the Soviets in 1963; Sally Ride became NASA's first woman in space in 1983.

Voyager I, launched in 1977, has left the solar system entirely and is currently travelling through interstellar space. It was 1.99×10¹⁰ km away from Earth as of late 2015.

Kelly (who definitely has a college degree) had been in space for more than 400 days as of December 2015, and his scheduled return to Earth in March 2016 would give him the international record for longest space flight as well, surpassing Russian Valeri Polyakov.

Following the 1986 disaster, there were no shuttle flights for nearly three years while the incident was investigated.

Anyone taller than 5 feet 11 inches would have had trouble fitting into the cramped space modules of the time. The space shuttle allowed astronauts up to six feet four inches tall.

The Saturn V rockets were designed for the Apollo program but were also used to launch Skylab. The Soviet Energia rocket was nearly as powerful.

Its mission was an unqualified success, providing over 7,000 photos of the Martian surface. But Mariner 9 has been dormant, silently orbiting Mars for more than 40 years. In about 2022 its orbit will decay enough that it enters the Martian atmosphere and crashes to the surface.

The three astronauts were killed during testing for Apollo 1, when faulty wiring ignited the pure oxygen in the command module.

Hubble has been repaired and upgraded five times since it was launched in 1990.

Discovery also holds the record for the most total time spent in-flight at just under 365 days.

Gemini established that both crews and equipment could endure lengthy periods in space — long enough to get to the moon and back.

The broadcast eventually included a speech by President Kennedy, but the baseball game was used as filler until he was ready.

The first mission to the International Space Station (ISS) docked on Nov. 2, 2000. There's been at least one American on the ISS ever since.

Both Viking landers touched down on Martian soil in 1976.

Although the mission numbering system was changed several times, resulting in a mix of numbers and letters, all shuttle missions had the "Space Transportation System" prefix.