Astronauts
The first AMERICAN astronaut to land on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
This shuttle blew apart some 73 seconds after lifting off from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1986.
The Challenger
NASA's motto
"For the benefit of all"
The NASA program that resulted in American astronauts' making a total of 11 spaceflights and walking on the moon.
The Apollo Program
Neil Armstrong said this when he landed on the moon.
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
Christa McAuliffe
American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire, and one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
The 3rd shuttle to head to space but ran "return to flight" missions and successfully completed over 30 missions before it retired in 2011.
Discovery
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This Apollo first landed humans on the Moon.
Apollo 11
The name and location of NASA's launching station.
Kennedy Space Station in
Merrit Island, Florida
The first American in space.
Alan Shepard; flew on Mercury Spacecraft. He named his capsule Freedom 7.
A ship like no other, the space shuttle launched like a rocket and landed like a glider while transporting astronauts to space and back for thirty years and is now displayed at the Kennedy Space Center.
Atlantis
The Sputnik launch caught Americans by surprise and sparked fears that the Soviets might also be capable of sending missiles with nuclear weapons from Europe to America and lead to the creation of this U.S. government agency.
NASA
This type of spacecraft used to bring astronauts to the moon.
Rockets
The first major optical telescope to be placed in space, the ultimate mountaintop.
Hubble Space Telescope
John Glenn
Frist astronaut to orbit the Earth 3 times in 1962.
A fatal incident in the United States space program occurred on February 1, 2003, when this space shuttle disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.
Columbia
NASA headquarters location
Washington D.C.
The historic launch of the Apollo 11 mission carried this many astronauts to the moon.
Three
A modular space station and satellite in low Earth orbit.
International Space Station
Sally Ride
First American woman in space.
First American shuttle to reach and orbit space.
Columbia
This American President signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act back in 1958 to establish NASA.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The year America landed on the moon.
1969
It is home to the nation's astronaut corps, the International Space Station mission operations, the Orion Program, and a host of future space developments.
NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas