- 1. How much was the NASA contract awarded to SpaceX in April 2011 for the CCDev program?
A) $200 million
B) $75 million
C) $100 million
D) $1 billion
- 2. In early 2012, what was the estimated valuation of SpaceX?
A) $1.3 billion
B) $875 million
C) $12 billion
D) $2.4 billion
- 3. Which spacecraft became the first commercial vehicle to deliver cargo to the ISS in May 2012?
A) CCtCap
B) Dragon
C) Falcon 9
D) Starlink
- 4. What was the valuation of SpaceX after the Dragon C2+ launch?
A) $12 billion
B) $2.4 billion
C) $1 billion
D) $1.3 billion
- 5. How much private equity did SpaceX receive in its first decade?
A) $200 million
B) $75 million
C) $100 million
D) $1 billion
- 6. When did SpaceX's active reusability test program begin?
A) Early 2012
B) Late 2012
C) 2013
D) 2014
- 7. When did high-velocity, high-altitude tests of booster return technology begin?
A) Late 2012
B) 2011
C) 2014
D) Late 2013
- 8. How many commercial mission contracts did SpaceX win out of the 20 openly competed in 2014?
A) Twenty
B) Nine
C) Four
D) Six
- 9. Which company requested government subsidies to compete with SpaceX in 2014?
A) Fidelity Investments
B) Arianespace
C) Google
D) United Launch Alliance
- 10. Before SpaceX, how much did launch costs for the U.S. military reach under the ULA monopoly?
A) Over $1 billion
B) Over $400 million
C) Over $200 million
D) Over $75 million
- 11. What was the name of the contract awarded to SpaceX in September 2014 to finalize the Crew Transportation System?
A) SAA
B) CCtCap
C) CCDev
D) Starlink
- 12. In January 2015, how much funding did SpaceX raise from Google and Fidelity?
A) $200 million
B) $2.4 billion
C) $1 billion
D) $875 million
- 13. What percentage of the company did Google and Fidelity own after their 2015 investment?
A) 8.33%
B) 50%
C) Two-thirds
D) 10%
- 14. What was the estimated valuation of SpaceX in January 2015?
A) $2.4 billion
B) $1.3 billion
C) $12 billion
D) $1 billion
- 15. What is the name of the SpaceX satellite constellation announced in 2015?
A) CCtCap
B) Dragon
C) Falcon 9
D) Starlink
- 16. How many satellites was Starlink initially planned to include?
A) 8,000
B) 1,000
C) 4,000
D) 2,000
- 17. What caused the Falcon 9 CRS-7 mission to explode in 2015?
A) A fuel leak
B) A failed steel strut
C) A software error
D) External damage
- 18. How much of SpaceX stock was owned by Musk in early 2012?
A) All of it
B) Ten percent
C) Half
D) Approximately two-thirds
- 19. What mission experienced a failure in June 2015?
A) CCtCap
B) CCDev
C) Dragon C2+
D) CRS-7
- 20. How much total funding had SpaceX operated on during its first decade?
A) $200 million
B) $1.3 billion
C) $12 billion
D) Approximately $1 billion
- 21. The Falcon rocket series was named after a spacecraft from which franchise?
A) Star Wars
B) 2001: A Space Odyssey
C) Star Trek
D) Battlestar Galactica
- 22. In 2004, SpaceX protested a NASA contract awarded to which company?
A) Kistler Aerospace
B) SolarCity
C) Boeing
D) Tesla Motors
- 23. What program did NASA form after withdrawing the Kistler Aerospace contract?
A) Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)
B) Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)
C) DARPA Falcon Project
D) Prompt Global Strike
- 24. Which vehicle did SpaceX originally intend to develop after the Falcon 1?
A) Falcon 9
B) Dragon
C) Falcon Heavy
D) Falcon 5
- 25. Which organization purchased the first two Falcon 1 launches?
A) United States Department of Defense
B) Tesla Motors
C) SpaceX
D) NASA
- 26. What was the purpose of the DARPA Falcon Project?
A) Hypersonic missile delivery evaluation
B) Satellite deployment
C) Human-rated space travel
D) Deep space exploration
- 27. On which attempt did the Falcon 1 achieve its first successful launch?
A) Third
B) Fifth
C) Second
D) Fourth
- 28. What contract award in December 2008 financially saved SpaceX?
A) Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS)
B) DARPA Falcon Project
C) Commercial Resupply Services (CRS)
D) Kistler Aerospace contract
- 29. After which launch was the Falcon 1 retired?
A) Fourth
B) First
C) Fifth
D) Third
- 30. Who was promoted to company president for her role in negotiating the CRS contract?
A) Bill Gerstenmaier
B) Gwynne Shotwell
C) Elon Musk
D) Kistler Aerospace
- 31. When did the first operational Dragon spacecraft launch?
A) September 2008
B) June 2010
C) December 2010
D) July 2009
- 32. Who did SpaceX negotiate the CRS contract with at NASA?
A) Elon Musk
B) Gwynne Shotwell
C) Bill Gerstenmaier
D) The GAO
- 33. What type of launch vehicle was the Falcon 9 intended to be?
A) Reusable heavy-lift
B) Reusable medium-lift
C) Expendable small-lift
D) Expendable medium-lift
- 34. What was the name of the project Musk announced at the Mars Society convention in 2001?
A) Mars Oasis
B) Project Falcon
C) SpaceX One
D) Red Planet Greenhouse
- 35. What was the goal of the Mars Oasis project?
A) Create a fuel production station
B) Build a human colony
C) Launch a satellite to orbit Mars
D) Land a greenhouse and grow plants on Mars
- 36. Which rocket did Musk initially try to acquire from Russia?
A) Dnepr
B) Falcon 1
C) Proton
D) Soyuz
- 37. Who provided the Russian contacts that helped Musk attempt to acquire a launch vehicle?
A) Jim Cantrell
B) John Garvey
C) Tom Mueller
D) Michael D. Griffin
- 38. Who was the 11th Administrator of NASA that accompanied Musk to Moscow?
A) Michael D. Griffin
B) Chris Thompson
C) Robert Zubrin
D) John Garvey
- 39. Which of these is NOT one of the strategies Musk believed would cut launch costs?
A) Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components
B) Vertical integration
C) Adopting a modular software engineering approach
D) Exclusive government funding
- 40. In what year did Elon Musk start looking for staff for SpaceX?
A) 2000
B) 2003
C) 2001
D) 2002
- 41. Which two individuals later founded the company Vector Launch?
A) Jim Cantrell and John Garvey
B) Tom Mueller and Chris Thompson
C) Robert Zubrin and Michael D. Griffin
D) Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell
- 42. Where was the first SpaceX headquarters located?
A) Cape Canaveral, Florida
B) Austin, Texas
C) Los Angeles, California
D) El Segundo, California
- 43. What was Tom Mueller's role at SpaceX?
A) COO
B) Chief Engineer
C) CTO
D) VP of Operations
- 44. Which companies were early SpaceX employees like Tom Mueller and Gwynne Shotwell previously employed at?
A) General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman
B) NASA and Lockheed Martin
C) TRW and Boeing
D) SpaceX and Blue Origin
- 45. Who personally interviewed and approved all early SpaceX employees?
A) Michael D. Griffin
B) Gwynne Shotwell
C) Elon Musk
D) Tom Mueller
- 46. Where is SpaceX headquartered?
A) Brownsville, Texas
B) Cape Canaveral, Florida
C) Hawthorne, California
D) Starbase, Texas
- 47. What percentage of voting power does Elon Musk control at SpaceX?
A) 84%
B) 39%
C) 100%
D) 51%
- 48. Which company segment operates the Starlink constellation?
A) Infrastructure
B) Connectivity
C) Space
D) Artificial Intelligence
- 49. What is the name of the subsidiary that develops the Grok family of LLMs?
A) OpenAI
B) Neuralink
C) SpaceX Super Intelligence
D) Starlink AI
- 50. When did SpaceX successfully launch the Falcon 1 into orbit?
A) 2002
B) 2008
C) 2010
D) 2006
- 51. Which vehicle does SpaceX plan to adapt as a human lander for NASA's Artemis program?
A) Falcon Heavy
B) Dragon 2
C) Starship
D) Falcon 1
- 52. In what year did SpaceX complete the first reflight of an orbital-class booster?
A) 2017
B) 2018
C) 2012
D) 2015
- 53. What joint venture was announced in 2026 with Tesla, Inc.?
A) Colossus
B) Grok
C) Starshield
D) Terafab
- 54. What is the name of the military counterpart to Starlink?
A) Starshield
B) Dragon 2
C) Colossus
D) Starbase
- 55. In what year did SpaceX achieve the first successful landing and recovery of a first stage?
A) 2015
B) 2017
C) 2014
D) 2016
- 56. What discount percentage did SpaceX offer customers for flying on a reused Falcon 9 first stage in 2016?
A) 15%
B) 10%
C) 20%
D) 5%
- 57. What caused the Falcon 9 explosion in September 2016?
A) Fuel leak
B) Engine overheating
C) Solidified liquid oxygen
D) Structural fatigue
- 58. What was the name of the first satellite launched on a reused Falcon 9 rocket?
A) AMOS-6
B) SES-10
C) Falcon 9 Flight 20
D) SpaceX-1
- 59. When was The Boring Company test tunnel completed?
A) May 2018
B) December 2018
C) March 2018
D) July 2017
- 60. What percentage of The Boring Company's equity went to SpaceX?
A) 6%
B) 90%
C) 50%
D) 10%
- 61. What global market share for awarded commercial launch contracts did SpaceX achieve in 2017?
A) 45%
B) 30%
C) 10%
D) 60%
- 62. Where did the September 2016 rocket explosion occur?
A) During a pre-launch static fire test
B) During atmospheric reentry
C) During orbit injection
D) During the recovery landing
- 63. In May 2019, how many Starlink satellites were launched in the first large batch?
A) 30
B) 100
C) 60
D) 120
- 64. What was the result of Starship's first orbital flight test on April 20, 2023?
A) Reached orbit successfully
B) Successful landing
C) Launch was scrubbed before liftoff
D) Mid-air explosion
- 65. In 2022, what was the total number of SpaceX launches?
A) 61
B) 50
C) 72
D) 45
- 66. Which mission featured the first-ever private spacewalk?
A) Polaris Dawn
B) Crew Dragon Demo-2
C) Artemis 1
D) Starship 14
- 67. What does 'max q' refer to during rocket ascent?
A) Maximum engine temperature
B) Maximum fuel consumption rate
C) Maximum velocity achieved
D) Maximum aerodynamic pressure
- 68. Which company is a partner with SpaceX and xAI for the Terafab project?
A) Google
B) Tesla
C) Anthropic
D) Nvidia
- 69. Where is the Colossus 1 data center located?
A) Austin, Texas
B) Memphis, Tennessee
C) Hawthorne, California
D) Boca Chica, Texas
- 70. What is the name of SpaceX's orbit-to-Earth delivery capsule?
A) Colossus 1
B) Starmind
C) Terafab
D) Starfall
- 71. What is the ticker symbol for SpaceX on the Nasdaq?
A) XAI
B) SFAL
C) TSLA
D) SPCX
- 72. What was the share price of SpaceX at its IPO?
A) $250
B) $135
C) $60
D) $920
- 73. What is the name of the solar-powered space-based data center project?
A) Starfall
B) Terafab
C) Colossus 1
D) Starmind
- 74. What system will provide the internal compute for the Starmind AI1 satellite?
A) Nvidia Vera Rubin (NVL72)
B) Google Tensor processing units
C) Terafab logic chips
D) Cursor AI modules
- 75. What is the peak compute payload capacity of the Starmind AI1 satellite?
A) 175 kW
B) 1 terawatt
C) 250 kW
D) 920 MW
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