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PBHS Astronauts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| second person to walk on the moon | Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz" |
| commander of the Apollo 11 mission, and first man to walk on the moon | Armstrong, Neil |
| Russian cosmonaut; first man to orbit the earth | Gagarin, Yuri |
| First American in orbital flight when he orbited the earth three times in his Friendship 7; served as US senate from Ohio; also on was aboard shuttle Discovery, becoming the oldest man in space | Glenn, John |
| became the first woman in space | Ride, Sally |
| first woman to orbit the earth | Tereshkova, Valentina |
| first American in space on his 15 minute sub-orbital flight | Shepard, Alan Bartlett, Jr. |
| first American to perform extravehicular activity in space; killed in 1967 with crewmates Grissom And Chaffee | White, Edward Higgins |
| first AMERICAN WOMAN in space | Sally Ride |
| moon missions were which ones which program? | Apollo |
| moons of Mars? | Phobos (fear) larger; Deimos (dread) |
| largest moon in our solar system? | Ganymede of Jupiter |
| four Galilean moons | Io, Ganymede, Europa, Callisto |