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NASA Space Program

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What is the LEM?


2. What was the second man in space program for the U.S.?






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






4. What date was the first articial satellite launched?






5. What were President John F. Kennedy's words on May 25 - 1961?






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






7. What astronauts were on the Apollo mission that landed on the moon?






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






9. When was the first space shuttle launched?






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






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






12. When was the Explorer I launched?






13. When was the 2nd artificial satellite launched?






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






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






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


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






18. Who was the first American to orbit the earth?






19. As a group - how were the 7 original astronauts known?






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






21. What was the name of the command module of the Apollo mission that landed on the moon? LEM?






22. What date was the first articial satellite launched?






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






24. What were the first words as man stepped on the moon?


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


26. What country launched the first artificial satellite?






27. When was the 2nd artificial satellite launched?






28. Why was NASA created?






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






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






31. How long was the flight of the first manned space module launched in the history of the U.S.?






32. Who was president when NASA was created?






33. Was the first American to orbit the earth's trip shortened or lengthened? Why?






34. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






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






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






37. What Apollo mission landed on the moon?






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






39. Name the 7 original astronauts






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






41. As a group - how were the 7 original astronauts known?






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






43. When was the first space shuttle launched?






44. What does NASA stand for?






45. What were the first words from the moon?


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






47. When did the first American orbit the earth?






48. When did the first manned space module launched in the history of the U.S.?






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


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