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NASA Space Program

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What were the first words as man stepped on the moon?


2. What date did the first American walk in space?






3. Who was the first American to walk in space?






4. What was the size of the first articial satellite that was launched?






5. What is the date the first human flew in space?






6. How many applicants for the first group of astronauts?






7. What was the importance of the launching of the Explorer I?






8. Who was president when NASA was created?






9. Why did the Apollo 13 command module not land on the moon?






10. What is the name of the first space shuttle launched?






11. What Apollo mission was the first to orbit the moon?






12. What country was the first human to fly in space from?






13. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






14. What Apollo mission was the first to orbit the moon?






15. Who was the first human to fly in space?






16. What was the name of the first manned space module launched in the history of the U.S.?






17. What is the name of the space module that the first American to orbit the earth use?






18. What were the objectives of the first man-in-space project for the U.S.?


19. What is the date the first human flew in space?






20. What country launched the first artificial satellite?






21. What is the LEM?


22. hen was NASA created?






23. What was aboard the second articial satellite that was launched?






24. What were the first words from the moon?


25. What does NASA stand for?






26. What date did the Apollo mission land on the moon?






27. What is the name of the first articial satellite that was launched?






28. What was the name of the first manned space module launched in the history of the U.S.?






29. What was the difference between the second man in space program for the U.S. And the Mercury program?






30. How many more Apollo missions were there to the moon? Why or why not?






31. Who was the first human to fly in space?






32. What was the name of the Apollo 13 command module? LEM?






33. When did the first American orbit the earth?






34. How many flights were in the first man-in-space project for the U.S.?






35. What is the number of orbits the first American to orbit the earth complete?






36. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






37. Why was NASA created?






38. What is the name of the space module that the first American to orbit the earth use?






39. What tragedy struck Apollo I?






40. What date did the Apollo mission land on the moon?






41. What was aboard the second articial satellite that was launched?






42. What was happening in history to prompt President John F. Kennedy's speech of May 25 - 1961?


43. What were the first words from the moon?


44. What was the name of the first man-in-space project for the U.S.?






45. What does NASA stand for?






46. What were the goals of the second man in space program for the U.S.?


47. How many applicants for the first group of astronauts?






48. Name the astronauts of Apollo I






49. Name the 7 original astronauts






50. What was the name of the first man-in-space project for the U.S.?