#4832, aired 2005-09-20 | MAN IN SPACE $400: (Leroy Chiao, aboard the International Space Station, reads the clue.) On January 14, 2004 President Bush said the I.S.S. would focus on human biology in space, to prepare for a first visit to this planet Mars |
#4832, aired 2005-09-20 | MAN IN SPACE $800: Deke Slayton, grounded from this program in 1962 for medical reasons, finally went into space in 1975 the Mercury program |
#4832, aired 2005-09-20 | MAN IN SPACE $3,000 (Daily Double): (Leroy Chiao reads again.) An early vision of a space station was in a 1952 Collier's magazine article by this scientist Wernher von Braun |
#4291, aired 2003-04-07 | MAN IN SPACE $400: (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from the Johnson Space Center in Houston.) The Apollo 17 command module jettisoned this on Dec 15, 1972; hey, they were done with it lunar module |
#4291, aired 2003-04-07 | MAN IN SPACE $800: His doctoral thesis was on the rendezvous of piloted spacecraft & he had his own rendezvous with Armstrong Buzz Aldrin |
#4291, aired 2003-04-07 | MAN IN SPACE $1200: In Gemini 5, this man called "Gordo" became the first man to make a second orbital flight Cooper |
#4291, aired 2003-04-07 | MAN IN SPACE $1600: More people visited this Russian space station, launched in 1986, than all previous stations combined Mir |
#4291, aired 2003-04-07 | MAN IN SPACE $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Johnson Space Center.) I'm in a trainer for this 1973-74 program that tried to find out how weightlessness affected astronauts Skylab |
#3870, aired 2001-06-01 | FIRST MAN IN SPACE FROM... $100: Vladimir Gurragcha was the first in outer space from this "outer" area Outer Mongolia |
#3870, aired 2001-06-01 | FIRST MAN IN SPACE FROM... $200: Marc Garneau headed south from this country to head up from Cape Canaveral in 1984 Canada |
#3870, aired 2001-06-01 | FIRST MAN IN SPACE FROM... $300: In 1980 Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez' route out of this country was very different than Elian Gonzalez' Cuba |
#3870, aired 2001-06-01 | FIRST MAN IN SPACE FROM... $500 (Daily Double): In 1978 men from this country took residence in the Vatican & the Salyut 6 space station Poland |
#1868, aired 1992-10-21 | MAN IN SPACE $200: On Feb. 18, 1977, the Space Shuttle made its first test flight aboard a 747 at this California Air Force Base Edwards |
#1868, aired 1992-10-21 | MAN IN SPACE $400: Launched on Apr. 12, 1981, this space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft the Columbia |
#1868, aired 1992-10-21 | MAN IN SPACE $600: Nicknamed "Gordo", he flew in the longest & last of the Mercury flights in 1963 Gordon Cooper |
#1868, aired 1992-10-21 | MAN IN SPACE $800: When an oxygen tank ruptured, this Apollo mission had to return to Earth without landing on the Moon Apollo 13 |
#1868, aired 1992-10-21 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: In November of 1966, James Lovell & Edwin Aldrin became the last to fly in this two-man spacecraft a Gemini |
#1382, aired 1990-09-11 | MAN IN SPACE $200: On its 34,981st orbit, July 11, 1979, it fell to Earth over Western Australia the Skylab |
#1382, aired 1990-09-11 | MAN IN SPACE $400: The Soviet's Buran 1st launched in 1988, looks almost exactly like this U.S. craft the Space Shuttle |
#1382, aired 1990-09-11 | MAN IN SPACE $600: On July 21, 1969, NASA executed its first manned takeoff from this site from the Moon (Sea of Tranquility) |
#1382, aired 1990-09-11 | MAN IN SPACE $800: The ESA, which is currently sending up satellites on Ariane launch vehicles is this the European Space Agency |
#1382, aired 1990-09-11 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: In 1966, on his first space flight, he & David Scott performed the first docking of 2 vehicles in space Neil Armstrong |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | MAN IN SPACE $200: The Rogers Comm. determined that the Challenger explosion was caused by a failure of these rubber seals O-rings |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | MAN IN SPACE $400: In 1971 Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott & James Irwin were the 1st to use this battery-powered vehicle lunar rover |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | MAN IN SPACE $600: The Apollo spacecraft was launched by this rocket which shares its name with a planet Saturn |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | MAN IN SPACE $800: In 1986 the Soviets launched this next generation space station whose name means "peace" Mir |
#1169, aired 1989-10-05 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: On June 3, 1965 this Gemini 4 astronaut took a 20 minute space walk, the 1st American to do so Ed White |
#1142, aired 1989-07-18 | MAN IN SPACE $200: Although space shuttles are launched from Cape Canaveral, mission control is located in this city Houston |
#1142, aired 1989-07-18 | MAN IN SPACE $400: Of 2, 4 or 6 days, length of time it took to reach the moon 4 days |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | MAN IN SPACE $100: The 6 U.S. lunar landings put a total of this many men on the Moon 12 |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | MAN IN SPACE $200: On Feb. 26, 1962 he told Congress that his flight "proved that man can operate intelligently in space" John Glenn |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | MAN IN SPACE $300: The 1st U.S. space program to feature a spacewalk Gemini |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | MAN IN SPACE $400: In January 1989 the Soviet probe Phobos II went into orbit around this planet Mars |
#1133, aired 1989-07-05 | MAN IN SPACE $500: This country modified a runway on Easter Island for emergency use by U.S. Space Shuttles Chile |
#994, aired 1988-12-22 | MAN IN SPACE $100: His one & only flight in space lasted 4 hours 55 minutes & consisted of 3 orbits John Glenn |
#994, aired 1988-12-22 | MAN IN SPACE $500: Apollo 11 astronaut who tells the history of U.S. manned spaceflight in the 1988 book "Liftoff" Michael Collins |
#994, aired 1988-12-22 | MAN IN SPACE $1,000 (Daily Double): In names given to the Mercury capsules Friendship 7 &, Faith 7, etc., the "7" meant this number of original Mercury astronauts |
#942, aired 1988-10-11 | MAN IN SPACE $200: In June 1985 Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud went into space in one of this country's spacecrafts United States |
#942, aired 1988-10-11 | MAN IN SPACE $400: Number of times Sally Ride rode into space Two |
#942, aired 1988-10-11 | MAN IN SPACE $600: On this Apollo mission, a tank on the service module exploded & the lunar module was used as a lifeboat Apollo 13 |
#942, aired 1988-10-11 | MAN IN SPACE $800: On April 18, 1985 Reagan asked, by radio, if this senator would come back down & help him with the budget Jake Garn |
#942, aired 1988-10-11 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: Skylab was originally the 3rd stage of this rocket Saturn |
#873, aired 1988-05-25 | MAN IN SPACE $200: We think the Soviets currently have 3 of these in orbit, Mir & Salyut 6 & 7 space stations |
#873, aired 1988-05-25 | MAN IN SPACE $400: Year in which the 2nd team of U.S. astronauts landed on the Moon 1969 |
#873, aired 1988-05-25 | MAN IN SPACE $600: If they haven't been towed away by now, there are still 3 of these U.S. 4-wheel vehicles parked on the Moon lunar rovers |
#873, aired 1988-05-25 | MAN IN SPACE $800: In Mercury 7, he became the last U.S. astronaut to go up alone "Gordo" Cooper |
#811, aired 1988-02-29 | MAN IN SPACE $200: NASA has pencilled in the next one of these for June 1988 Space Shuttle flights |
#811, aired 1988-02-29 | MAN IN SPACE $400: An astronaut "on" this planet would weigh about 2.5 times as much as he did on earth Jupiter |
#811, aired 1988-02-29 | MAN IN SPACE $600: The ESA; like NASA, they shoot off rockets the European Space Agency |
#780, aired 1988-01-15 | MAN IN SPACE $200: Halley's Comet was met in 1986 by this country's Suisei & Sakigake spacecrafts Japan |
#780, aired 1988-01-15 | MAN IN SPACE $400: Craft aboard which U.S. astronauts spent the longest time in space, about 2000 hours Skylab |
#780, aired 1988-01-15 | MAN IN SPACE $600: To date, this Space Shuttle named for a lost land has gone up on the fewest missions--2 Atlantis |
#780, aired 1988-01-15 | MAN IN SPACE $800: He went up in Vostok I Yuri Gagarin |
#780, aired 1988-01-15 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: The 1st live pictures of a manned liftoff from here were transmitted in August 1971 the moon |
#743, aired 1987-11-25 | MAN IN SPACE $200: The 1st reusable space vehicle, one was 1st launched into orbit in 1981 Space Shuttle |
#743, aired 1987-11-25 | MAN IN SPACE $400: Ency. Americana says that at a force of 5 Gs, blood has weight of this metal, Fe Iron |
#743, aired 1987-11-25 | MAN IN SPACE $600: The primary function of retrorockets to slow the rocket down |
#743, aired 1987-11-25 | MAN IN SPACE $800: A space module's life support system must remove this gas, a primary product of respiration carbon dioxide |
#743, aired 1987-11-25 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: The greatest number of people NASA has put into space at one time 7 |
#622, aired 1987-04-28 | MAN IN SPACE $100: This country called the 1st satellite it launched on its own the "Rising Sun I" Japan |
#622, aired 1987-04-28 | MAN IN SPACE $200: Type of animal that went up with Sputnik 2 a dog |
#622, aired 1987-04-28 | MAN IN SPACE $300: Patriotic name shared by the Apollo 11 command module & a Space Shuttle orbiter Columbia |
#622, aired 1987-04-28 | MAN IN SPACE $400: Term for the push given to a rocket by its engines thrust |
#622, aired 1987-04-28 | MAN IN SPACE $500: The space centers in Cape Canaveral & Houston are named after these 2 people Presidents Kennedy and Johnson |
#499, aired 1986-11-06 | MAN IN SPACE $100: "Escape velocity" refers to escaping this earth's gravitation |
#499, aired 1986-11-06 | MAN IN SPACE $200: Trying for a soft landing here, Russian Lunas 5, 6, 7 & 8 missed it entirely or crashed the moon |
#499, aired 1986-11-06 | MAN IN SPACE $300: On 6/3/65, Ed White became 1st from U.S. to duplicate this feat Alexei Leonov performed in March walking in space |
#499, aired 1986-11-06 | MAN IN SPACE $400 (Daily Double): Number of the Apollo mission that put the 2nd man on the Moon 11 |
#499, aired 1986-11-06 | MAN IN SPACE $500: It was the U.S. equivalent to the Soviet Salyut Skylab |
#309, aired 1985-11-14 | MAN IN SPACE $200: Country which had the 1st woman to walk in space Soviet Union |
#309, aired 1985-11-14 | MAN IN SPACE $400: On Sept. 29, 1985 this film director activated “META”, a radio to contact extra-terrestrials Steven Spielberg |
#309, aired 1985-11-14 | MAN IN SPACE $600: Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong, Collins & Aldrin each also flew in this program Gemini |
#309, aired 1985-11-14 | MAN IN SPACE $800: Called “Drogues”, they open during a capsule's descent parachutes |
#309, aired 1985-11-14 | MAN IN SPACE $1000: In February, 1984, the Soviets reactivated this space station Salyut 7 |