Take the Space Quiz

[dalek sec]

I actually managed to get a decent 7/10 on the test and I just guessed a few times.

Still hoping we can get another badge earning test at some point.

 

[TheMann]

I know a lot about spaceflight and would have aced that in less than a minute, but I missed two on my first try because they were about fictional movies, not about actual events. I call shenanigans.

 

[Grayjack]

I scored 60%, with 6 of 10 correct on The Escapist's Space Quiz. [br] [a href="/quizzes/view/144-Space-Quiz"]Take this quiz[/a]

Pretty good, I would say. Considering I knew almost nothing about the fictional side of it.

 

[icyneesan]

1 out of 10 or 9 wrong...

AYEM A GENIUS.

 

[Comrade_Beric]

10/10 first try, I was even #2 on the list when I finished, #11 now.

 

[incal11]

50 years ago Yuri Gagarin was the 1st man to go to space. Quiz time!

Nope, Gagarin was only the first one to come back alive
http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/man.htm

 

[Hashime]

10/10 first time!
Also, top 25!

 

[Saelune]

I only knowingly knew one...the Star Trek ones...
But I guessed well enough to get a 7/10.

Just wish it would TELL ME WHICH ONES!!!

 

[GraveeKing]

Oh god.... 20% ._. I feel very very stupid.
Bah it's only space - it's useless anyway >.>

 

[beema]

Pff, everyone knows that The Boss was the first woman, person even, in space!

 

[Steve Butts]

This question is wrong. [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay] None of those things happen when exposed to a Vacuum.

When exposed to a vacuum, pressure is releived against the lungs and oxygen proceeds to be eliminated from the bloodstream. As soon as blood from the lungs that has been entirely deoxygenated reaches the brain, you lose consciousness, which only takes about 12 seconds. Shortly thereafter you will die of a lack of oxygen being supplied to your body.
The water in your mouth and on your eyes will boil, you will lose responsiveness of your body in general and you will get searing pain in your lungs, but your body is made of stern-enough-stuff to stay in one piece if exposed to ~0 PSI, the muscles will not deform because of a lack of pressure, and your eyes will not pop out. Nor do you swell up, cook alive, explode or freeze.

Since when is TVtropes.com a credible scientific source? The information in the question is correct according to several experiments that NASA and the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine conducted on chimpanzees in the 1960s. It's not the kind of methodology either institution is eager to publicize these days, but the information is out there.

An astrophysicist from Goddard Space Center this article [http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970603.html] (also by a NASA scientist) is a great starting point.