Space Race Begins
What two countries “competed” in the Space Race?
United States and Soviet Union
First American in Space
Alan Shepard
Name all 3 astronauts who died in Apollo 1
Grissom, White, Chaffee
What was the name of the first American space station?
Skylab
Name 5 Space Shuttles
Enterprise, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, Challenger, Endeavor, Columbia
When did the Cold War begin?
Immediately after World War II
astronaut who flew the Liberty Bell
Gus Grissom
Who hit the Longest Golf Shot in the Solar System (assuming that there are aliens somewhere playing golf)
Alan Shepard
What did the American hand the Russians in the Apollo Soyuz mission?
A commemorative coin
What was the name of the Teacher who Died on the Challenger?
Crista McAuliffe
What was the name of the Russian satellite that caused American feat?
Sputnik
First man to walk in space
Ed White
Which Apollo mission had an oxygen tank explode?
Apollo 13
What did the Russians give the Americans
Vodka
Which Suttle Blew up over Texas?
Columbia
What was NASA’s first priority after it was formed?
To make the United States No. 1 in space?
Name one of the West Area Computing Unit women
Catherine Gobel, Dorothy Vaughn, or Mary Jackson
Which apollo mission used the Moon Buggy 1st?
Apollo 15.
Which former Mercury Astronaut (grounded due to medical reasons) was on the apollo Soyuz Mission?
Deke Slayton
1st to fly the shuttle in space
John Young
What did President Eisenhower mean when he said he “wanted a good Redstone rather than a man on the Moon”?
He was a former General. He wanted to focus funds on defense mechanisms rather than in going to the Moon.
1st American to Orbit the Earth
John Glenn
What was the last mission to the moon?
Apollo 17.
Why did the Americans and the Soviets Dock in space?
It demonstrated that a successful collaboration was possible between the Americans and Russians.
Giant Space Telescope delivered and fixed by shuttle crews
the Hubble