Astronaut Quiz

Martian Astronaut Project for NASA

Astronaut Quiz

Ready to take an Astronaut Quiz? This is a preliminary quiz that will be used in order to determine if an astronaut has the "perfect" combination of qualities that will foster the best possible mission to Mars.

This quiz is just a preliminary psychological quiz designed to test whether or not you might be considered as a candidate to be a Martian astronaut. There will be many people who will want to be the first group of people to step on Mars, and this test is designed to "weed out" the extremities. If you like to know the results of your quiz, please leave your email in the space provided. Thanks!

*You are working on a top secret project for a government agency which is due next week. The agency calls you the next day and tells you they need their project by tomorrow. You tell them:	you need more time in order to finish the project efficiently.
	sure, and you quickly put the project together, leaving out some of the extraneous information.
	sure, and you put together as much of the project as you can before tomorrow.
	you will try to get the project done, but you would rather have a completed project to give them rather than something quickly put together.
	you will try to get it all done, and you try to finish the project as quickly and efficiently as you can.
*You are going to the movies with your best friend, and you have both been wanting to see a new movie that just came out. When you get there, the theatre tells you that the movie is sold out. You decide to:	wait for the next showing of the movie, which won't be for another two hours.
	go to a different theatre nearby that hasn't sold out yet.
	see a different movie, rather than waiting around for three hours.
	go home, rather than waiting around for three hours to see the movie.
	go to the arcade down the road, the one with a really cool sign.
*You are offered a chance of a lifetime to study at your favorite scientific laboratory in the world. However, the catch is that you can only make contact with the rest of the outside world three times during your stay there. You are able to communicate freely with all of the scientists who are working in the laboratory. Would you:	stay there for three years, being able to talk to your family and friends every year.
	stay there for one year, being able to talk to your family and friends every four months.
	stay there for three months, being able to talk to your family once a month.
	stay there for six years, being able to talk to your family and friends every two years.
	stay there for six months, being able to talk to your family and friends every two months.
*You are on the space shuttle, which is on a mission to dock with the International Space Station to restock it with more supplies. While you are monitoring some of the gauges, one of the oxygen tanks begins to loose oxygen rapidly. Do you immediately:	try to determine what is causing the decrese in oxygen and how to fix it.
	find the commander of the mission and ask them what the next course of action should be.
	contact Mission Control and ask them what procedure to follow.
	find the nearest crew members and collaborate on what course of action to take next.
	find the nearest crew member and ask them to help you locate the cause of the decreasing oxygen.
*At an astronaut convention, you are shaking hands with everyone and introducing yourself. You see a retired astronaut in a wheelchair stop right next to you. This astonaut begins to talk with one of the other astronauts nearby. Do you:	wait to introduce yourself and shake hands with the disabled astronaut.
	immediately introduce yourself and strike up a lively conversation with the disabled astronaut about their experiences an astronaut.
	wait to introduce yourself, shake hands, and offer to get the disabled astronaut a drink.
	introduce yourself and smile at them as you walk toward some other astronauts wanting to talk to you.
	immediately say hello and walk toward some other astronauts who want to talk to you.
*Briefly describe what you can make with a flashlight, a paper plate, a tube of glitter, a long piece of string, a sock, and a purple permanent marker.
*Briefly explain one of your most vivid or favorite memories from your childhood.
*Please leave your email address here if you would like to receive your results:

Part of the process for determining the "perfect" crew for a mission to Mars revolves around the qualities that both the individual and the group display. In order to minimize the risk and maximize the productivity, the committee who decides which candidates should be able to train to become Martian astronauts needs to have some psychologists in order to determine the qualities that each person possesses, and what this will mean for the rest of the crew.

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Hilary - High School Aerospace Scholars Project