It's the Brian Laird show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone, in our spring membership drive, trying to reach our goal of 10,000 donors. Thank you for being one if you can. You know our

philosophy on the show during membership drives. If we need to do the whole Pledge Week thing,

let's have some fun doing it. So once again, this drive, we're doing a 10-question quiz every day.

Get two in a row right and win a Brian Laird Show baseball hat or Brian Lerer Show mug, your choice.

And each quiz during this drive has a topic derived from a different public right and win a Brian Laird Show baseball hat or Brian Lerner Show mug, your choice.

And each quiz during this drive has a topic derived from a different public radio show.

Yesterday, it was 1A, which meant all questions about the First Amendment.

Today being Friday, it's Science Friday.

So the quiz questions will be based on news about science.

Who wants to play?

212, 433, WNYC.

And as I said before the news, you don't have to have been a chemistry major to win.

You just have to be paying a little bit of attention.

212, 433-9692.

Who wants to play? Again, get two in a row right, and you'll win a Brian Laird Show baseball hat or a Brian Laird Show mug. And we're going to start with Alex

and Park Slope, who's on line one. Hi, Alex. Ready to play?

Hi, Brian, yes.

So, what's the better known name for the Aurora Borealis, which was in the news around here recently?

The Northern Lights.

The Northern Lights is right, and as many of you know, thanks to a powerful solar storm, they were visible in this area if you were far enough away from the city lights and as far south as Alabama recently.

Question number two. In 2021, which company launched the firstvillion space crew to orbit the Earth?

I think that's SpaceX.

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