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1. What was the first rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, on July 24, 1950?
2. What was the name of the chimpanzee that NASA launched into orbit in November 1961 to pave the way for John Glenn's flight?
3. What research facility built the first successful U.S. Earth satellite, Explorer I?
4. What was the name of the first dog to orbit Earth?
5. What medical problem made NASA bump astronaut Deke Slayton from the second Mercury orbital flight in 1962?
6. What did Gordon Cooper name his Mercury spacecraft, the last in the program?
7. What comedian created the character of reluctant astronaut Jose Jimenez?
8. What was the purpose of the Discoverer series of Air Force satellites?
9. Most people know that Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut. Who was the second?
10. Which of the original Mercury astronauts commanded the first piloted mission in the Gemini program, the follow-on to Mercury?
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