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NASA Space Program

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






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


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






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






5. Who was president when NASA was created?






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






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






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






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






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






11. What were the first words from the moon?


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






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


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






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






16. hen was NASA created?






17. Name the astronauts of Apollo I






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






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






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






21. What date was the first articial satellite launched?






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. What is the LEM?


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






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






31. What is the LEM?


32. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






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






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






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


36. Why was NASA created?






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






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






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






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






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






42. What Apollo mission landed on the moon?






43. When did the first American orbit the earth?






44. hen was NASA created?






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


46. What does NASA stand for?






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






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






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






50. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?