Firsts in Space 1
This Russian school teacher predicted the landing on the moon and drew up plans for early space travel.
Who is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?
This spacecraft is where astronauts can live and work
What is the International Space Station
The first artifical satellite.
What is Sputnik 1
How many satellites are there
Over 2000
On May 5, 1961 this American answers the call and flies the "Freedom 7" spacecraft launched by a Redstone rocket to become the first American in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
This American inventor built and flew the worlds first liquid fuel rocket.
Who is Robbert Goddard?
First American to achieve a spacewalk
Ed White
This is known as Earth's natural satellite
What is the Moon
This mission was meant to put a lab into space
Skylab
This person was the first American to orbit the Earth
Who is John Glenn
This famous German rocket scientist published a book entitled "The Rocket into Interplanetary Space" which inspired the world to research rocketry as a means of leaving the planet.
Who is Hermann Oberth?
First American woman in space
Who is Dr. Sally Ride
These space probes were the first to take pictures of the Moon in the Apollo mission?
The Rangers
What was the mission that out a man on the moon?
Apollo (11)
This pilot from the Korean War became the first person to set foot on the moon aboard the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
First American manned spaceflight?
What is Project Mercury?
What are 3 parts that a satellite can have
What is a camera, power source and computer
What was the mission that was able to put 2 astrounauts into space
What is Gemini
On June 16, 1963 Valentina Tereshkova had the glorious distinction of becoming this.....
What is the first woman in space (2 days 23 hours)
The first space station (Russian)
What is Salyut 1
This is the movement that a satellite takes around a celestial body
orbit
How long did it take to build the International Space Station (ISS)
13 years