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1. Which one of the Columbia crew members was born on Christmas Day, 1959 in Plattsburg, NY?
2. Of the seven Columbia astronauts, how many had already been up in space?
3. Rick Husband, Columbia's commander, was the pilot on the first shuttle mission to dock at what location?
4. In August 2001, Husband took all seven crew members on an 11-day camping trip to the mountains of what state?
5. True or false: All of Columbia's crew was over the age of 40.
6. Ilan Ramon, Israel's first man in space, visited the Holocaust memorial of Vad Vashem in Jerusalem and brought up a sketch of the earth as seen from the moon made by 16-year-old Peter Ginz who died in 1944. At what concentration camp did Ginz die, the same camp Ramon's mother and grandmother survived?
7. Which future Columbia astronaut spent his years between graduating from the College of William & Mary and enrolling in Eastern Virginia Medical School as a circus acrobat, tumbler, stilt walker, and unicycle rider?
8. From what country did Kalpana Chawla hail?
9. Which astronaut had the most children?
10. Which one of the crew members was a certified zoologist?
11. True or false: Kalpana Chawla had logged more than 6,000,000 miles in space on her space trip in 1997.
12. Of all the astronauts, who was the only one not married?
13. Which crew member invited everyone he knew, from his house contractor to a doctor in Switzerland, to the launch, being that going up in Columbia was his first time in space?
14. Ilan Ramon was one of the eight F-16 pilots to attack what country's unfinished nuclear reactor in 1981?
15. On what day did Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon lose their lives aboard Columbia?
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