The Space Race
This country won the SPACE RACE
The United States
What innovation of Leonardo di Vinci that creates drag, one of the four forces of flight, for space capsules and space shuttles to help them land safely back on Earth
Which of the three do most astronauts say they enjoy more in space than they do when they're home on Earth?
Going to the bathroom, sleeping or eating?
sleeping
How many people can live comfortably on the International Space Station at one time
six
When living in micro-gravity environments, what is something astronauts have to do 2-5 hours a day in order to remain healthy
exercise
Name the three American space capsule missions in chronological order from the first to the last
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo
What happens to the rockets and fuel tanks of the space shuttles once they separate upon exiting Earth's atmosphere?
They fall back to Earth and land in the ocean
What is the sun visor on an astronaut's helmet made out of in order to protect them from solar radiation?
gold
What country built the robotic arm for the Space Shuttles and the ISS?
Canada
What was the first plant that astronaut scientists have successfully grown in space on the ISS thanks to the Lunar/Mars Greenhouse Project in California
lettuce
NASA Mathematicians and Astrophysicists used whose Law's of Motion to help calculate trajectories to send astronauts to the moon
Sir Isaac Newton
Where is Mission Control located?
Houston, Texas
During NASA's early missions, what food did astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young get in trouble for sneaking onto their space capsule?
Corned beef on Rye
Name 5 out of the 15 countries that helped build the ISS
United States, Russia, China, Japan, ESA (England-UK, France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Belgium and Denmark)
What does EVA stands for
Extra-Vehicular Activity
Who was the first man in space
Yuri Gagarin
What telescope did the Space Shuttles put into space and have to go back a couple of times to fix?
The Hubble Telescope
An astronaut trains with their mission's team for a minimum of this amount of time
six months
What's the name of the ISS module where astronauts put on their space suits and prepare for EVAs or returning to Earth
Airlock
How long does it take a space shuttle to orbit around the Earth completely
90 minutes at 17,500 miles per hour
Name ALL THREE astronauts that went to the moon on Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins
Name the space ships that NASA is now testing to take astronauts to Mars?
Orion
The swimming pools used to train astronauts to work during an EVA are called this
NBL or Neutral Buoyancy Lab
What year did people start living aboard the International Space Station?
2000
What is the Primary Life Support Subsystem or PLSS
the "backpack" of the space suit that provides oxygen to the astronaut during an EVA