Name the American program that launched the first artificial satellite
What is Project Vanguard?
100
What were the first words spoken when man landed on the moon?
What was "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?
200
First pilot to fly the X-15
Who was Scott Crossfield?
200
The United States's first artificial satellite
What was Explorer 1?
200
The number of times the X-15 flew successfully
What is 199 times?
200
This program launched the first American into Space.
What is Project Mercury?
200
The results of the Apollo program
What was 6 moon landings, 12 men on the moon, and 2 moon orbiting missions.
300
The first American to enter space
Who was Alan Shepard?
300
This Apollo mission flew into orbit around the moon in July 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
300
NASA was created in this year
What is 1958?
300
This program was created to conduct research while in space.
What are the Gemini Missions?
300
The reason we call it a "Space Race"?
What was the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the most successful country in the advancement of space exploration?
400
He was the first man to walk in space.
Who was Ed White?
400
The experimental rocket-powered spacecraft that flew faster than the speed of sound.
What was X-15?
400
It took America this long after the Soviet Union to launch a human into space.
What is 3 weeks?
400
This program was created to put man on the moon.
What are the Apollo Missions?
400
These are the 4 dangers of working and living on the moon.
What are extreme temperatures, solar radiation, lunar dust and meteorites?
500
The first person to walk on the moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
500
This object could only carry two astronauts in space
What was the Gemini capsule?
500
The approximate number of hours of space flight after the Gemini Missions were over
What is 2,000?
500
After Mercury, after Gemini, after Apollo came the rest of the space program...what were these missions called?
What is Space Transportation System or STS?
500
These were Gemini's 3 major objectives.
What was:
1. To subject man and equipment to space flight up to TWO weeks in duration.
2. To rendevous and dock with ORBITING vehicles and to maneuver the docked combination by using the target vehicle's PROPULSION system.
3. To perfect methods of entering the ATMOSPHERE and landing at a preselected point on land.