Presidential Trivia Answers (Dec. 15 & 16)

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(1) QUESTION: One President visited NASA astronauts while they were in quarantine after a mission. Which President? Bonus points if you know which mission.

ANSWER: Richard Nixon; Apollo 11. The astronauts had been on the moon, and people worried that they might accidentally bring back a deadly lunar pathogen.

(2) QUESTION: Who was President when NASA was established?

ANSWER: Dwight Eisenhower. In 1958, he signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act. It established NASA as a successor to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. (3) QUESTION: Who was President when the United States Space Force was established?

ANSWER: Donald Trump, although the idea had been considered as early as Eisenhower’s administration.