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NASA Space Program

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






2. When was the 2nd artificial satellite launched?






3. What is the LEM?


4. Why was NASA created?






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






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


7. When was the Explorer I launched?






8. What country launched the first artificial satellite?






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






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






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






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






13. Who were the astronauts of the first manned space module launched in the history of the U.S.?






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






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






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






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






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


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






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






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






22. What date was the first articial satellite launched?






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






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






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






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






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






28. Who was president when NASA was created?






29. What Apollo mission landed on the moon?






30. Name the 7 original astronauts






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






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


33. hen was NASA created?






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






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






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






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






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






39. What tragedy struck Apollo I?






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






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






42. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






43. What does NASA stand for?






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






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






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






47. When was the 2nd artificial satellite launched?






48. What country launched the first artificial satellite?






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


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