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Astronauts/Cosmonaut
Scholar Bowl Practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission and became the second person to walk on the Moon | Edwin "Buzz” Aldrin |
| Commander of 1969 Apollo 11 mission and became the first person to walk on the Moon | Neil Armstrong |
| Flew the Apollo 11 command module Columbia around the Moon while Aldrin and Armstrong walked on the moon | Michael Collins |
| First man to orbit Earth (1961) | Yuri Gagarin (Russian) |
| First American to orbit Earth (1962) | John Glenn (Also a senator for 24 years) |
| First woman in space (orbited Earth 1963) | Valentina Tereshkova (Russian) |
| First American woman in space (1983) | Sally Ride |
| First American in space (1961) | Alan Shepard |
| First man to walk in space (March 1965) | Alexei Leonov (Russian) |
| First American to walk in space (June 1965) | Edward H. White (died 1967, alongside astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Roger B. Chaffee in a fire during pre-launch testing for Apollo 1 |
| Not an astronaut, but first pilot to exceed the speed of sound (1947) | Chuck Yeager |
| Name the mission and year of first landing on the moon | Apollo 11 1969 |
| 1986 Space Shuttle that exploded 73 sec. after takeoff | Challenger |
| Teacher on board the Challenger | Christa McAuliffe |
| Astronauts that died in Apollo 1 pre-launch fire | White, Grissom and Chaffee |
| Year International Space Station began | 1998 |
| First woman to pilot and command a Space Shuttle mission | Eileen Collins |
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