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NASA Space Program

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What does NASA stand for?






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






3. What is the LEM?


4. What Apollo mission landed on the moon?






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






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






7. Name the 7 original astronauts






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






17. What country launched the first artificial satellite?






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






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






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






21. What were the first words from the moon?


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






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






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






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






26. hen was NASA created?






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


28. When did the first American orbit the earth?






29. When was the 2nd artificial satellite launched?






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






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






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






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






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






35. Name the astronauts of Apollo I






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






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






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






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






40. When was the first space shuttle launched?






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






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






43. Who was president when NASA was created?






44. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






45. hen was NASA created?






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






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






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






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






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