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Test your basic knowledge |

NASA Space Program

Subjects : trivia, science
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. When was the first space shuttle launched?






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






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






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






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






6. What is the LEM?


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






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






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






10. When was the 2nd artificial satellite launched?






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


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






13. What Apollo mission landed on the moon?






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






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






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






17. What does NASA stand for?






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






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


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






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






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


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






24. When did the first American orbit the earth?






25. What date was the first articial satellite launched?






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






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






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






29. Why was NASA created?






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






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


32. What country launched the first artificial satellite?






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






34. What tragedy struck Apollo I?






35. What does NASA stand for?






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






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






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


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






40. What were the first words from the moon?


41. Who was president when NASA was created?






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






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






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






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






46. What date was the first articial satellite launched?






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






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






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






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






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