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6 gr moon quiz
6th gr moon quiz-facts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| one of the first rocket scientists | Robert Goddard |
| World's first satellite launched by Soviet Unioin in 1957 | Sputnik |
| created by America to catch up with the Soviets in the "space race" | NASA |
| first to orbit the Earth on Feb 20, 1962 | Shuttle Columbia |
| Sent an astronaut into space and proved that humans could move, breath, and work in space and return to tell about it | Mercury program |
| first astronaut to walk in space | Edward White |
| first space mission to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969 | Apollo 11 |
| used to travel astronauts to Moon | Apollo |
| was created to be launched like a rocket and land like an airplane | space shuttle |
| first space shuttle to orbit the Earth | Columbia |
| rolled over the surface of Mars and took photos | Mars Pathfinder |
| used by scientists to look outside of our solar system into the universe | Hubble Space Telescope |
| size of a basketball | Sputnik |
| developed rockets to be launched in space during WW II | Dr. Wernher von Braun |
| National Aeronautics and Space Administration | NASA |
| first American to orbit the Earth on Februry 20, 1962 | John Glen |
| put people on the Moon | Gemini program |
| total of ten flights | Gemini program |
| taught astronauts to connect to other spacecrafts | Gemini program |
| put people on the moon | Apollo program |
| landed on Moon on July 20, 1969 | Apollo program |
| climbed out of first Apollo to walk on Moon | Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin |
| last ________ mission was in 1975 | Apollo |
| created spacecraft to launch like a rocket and land like a plane | NASA program |
| Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor | Space Shuttle program |
| Extra vehicular activity or EVA | space walk |
| exploded on its return to Earth on February 4, 2003 | Space Shuttle Columbia |
| Released Sojourner Rover to take pictures on Mars | Mars Pathfinder |
| used to look outside of our solar system | Hubble Telescope |
| was in orbit almost fifteen years | Russian Space Station Mir |
| astronauts from around world work on this | international space station |
| shuttles can dock here and is made up of many modules connected by a long spine called a truss | international space station |
| speed of 17,500 and passes Earth every hour and a half | international space station |
| spacecraft where people can live, food is delivered here in dehydrated packs, garbage is recycled, air inside is like Earth, people live here for months; where scientific work is conducted monitoring Earth's weather, climate, oceans, etc. | international space station |
| scientists here look for new ways to make computers, medical devices, and spacecraft | international space station |
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