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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 objective of the Apollo Program?
Command module=Columbia; LEM=Eagle
Designed to land humans on the moon - then bring them safely back to earth.
Apollo 11
Kennedy decided to overtake the Soviet Union in the 'Space Race' by making a decision to go to the moon. They tried to accomplish this before Russia
3. As a group - how were the 7 original astronauts known?
November 3 - 1957
April 12 - 1981
October 4 - 1957
Project Mercury
4. What was the name of the first manned space module launched in the history of the U.S.?
It carried a small scientific payload that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the earth.
April 12 - 1981
Apollo 8
Odyssey; Aquarios
5. What was the name of the Apollo 13 command module? LEM?
Odyssey; Aquarios
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Yuri Garagin
Apollo 8
6. What were the first words from the moon?
7. What is the date the first human flew in space?
Virgil Ivan Grissom - Edward Higgins White - II - and Roger Bruce Chaffee
The landing was different than the landings of the Mercury Program
Sputnik
April 12 - 1961
8. What is the name of the first articial satellite that was launched?
November 3 - 1957
Sputnik
January 31 - 1958
It carried a small scientific payload that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the earth.
9. What was the size of the first articial satellite that was launched?
November 3 - 1957
58 cm in diameter
Friendship Capsule
Neil Armstrong - Michael Collins - Edwin Aldrin - Jr.
10. When did the first American orbit the earth?
1962
Heavy payload and a dog named Laika
June 3 - 1965
Russia
11. What was happening in history to prompt President John F. Kennedy's speech of May 25 - 1961?
12. What date did the first American walk in space?
Scott Carpenter - Gordon Cooper - John Glenn - Gus Grisson - Wally Schirra - Alan Shepard - Deke Slayton
Sputnik
Apollo 10
June 3 - 1965
13. When was the first space shuttle launched?
The landing was different than the landings of the Mercury Program
Oxygen tank burst
April 12 - 1981
Yuri Garagin
14. When was the Explorer I launched?
Virgil Ivan Grissom - Edward Higgins White - II - and Roger Bruce Chaffee
Sputnik
Oxygen tank burst
January 31 - 1958
15. What does NASA stand for?
It carried a small scientific payload that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the earth.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Project Gemini
Yuri Garagin
16. What was aboard the second articial satellite that was launched?
October 4 - 1957
John F. Kennedy
1958
Heavy payload and a dog named Laika
17. What was the size of the first articial satellite that was launched?
April 12 - 1961
'One small step for man - one giant leap for mankind'
58 cm in diameter
147 hrs - 42 secs.
18. When was the Explorer I launched?
'One small step for man - one giant leap for mankind'
January 31 - 1958
April 12 - 1981
Lengthened;
19. What was the second man in space program for the U.S.?
3
John F. Kennedy
Heavy payload and a dog named Laika
Project Gemini
20. What was the difference between the second man in space program for the U.S. And the Mercury program?
7
The Luna's Excursion Module (landing gear)
The landing was different than the landings of the Mercury Program
Yuri Garagin
21. How many more Apollo missions were there to the moon? Why or why not?
11 - 12 - 14 - 15 - 16 - and 17. Stopped due to low budget
Ed White
In response to the Russian Sputnik launch
Scott Carpenter - Gordon Cooper - John Glenn - Gus Grisson - Wally Schirra - Alan Shepard - Deke Slayton
22. What is the name of the first space shuttle launched?
It carried a small scientific payload that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the earth.
Yuri Garagin
The landing was different than the landings of the Mercury Program
ST51
23. What Apollo mission was the first to orbit the moon?
Russia
Yuri Garagin
John Glenn
Apollo 10
24. How long was the flight of the first manned space module launched in the history of the U.S.?
November 3 - 1957
147 hrs - 42 secs.
Apollo 11
Sputnik
25. What was the difference between the second man in space program for the U.S. And the Mercury program?
1958
The landing was different than the landings of the Mercury Program
58 cm in diameter
James Lovell - Jr - Frank Bormann - William A. Anders
26. What were the first words as man stepped on the moon?
27. What country launched the first artificial satellite?
ST51
Project Mercury
Russia
January 31 - 1958
28. What was the name of the first manned space module launched in the history of the U.S.?
1962
Scott Carpenter - Gordon Cooper - John Glenn - Gus Grisson - Wally Schirra - Alan Shepard - Deke Slayton
Ed White
Apollo 8
29. What country was the first human to fly in space from?
Russia
April 12 - 1981
Apollo 11
Sputnik
30. What were the goals of the second man in space program for the U.S.?
31. What astronauts were on the Apollo mission that landed on the moon?
Russia
June 3 - 1965
Lengthened;
Neil Armstrong - Michael Collins - Edwin Aldrin - Jr.
32. What were the objectives of the first man-in-space project for the U.S.?
33. What does NASA stand for?
October 4 - 1957
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
April 12 - 1961
11 - 12 - 14 - 15 - 16 - and 17. Stopped due to low budget
34. What country launched the first artificial satellite?
Russia
Apollo 10
'One small step for man - one giant leap for mankind'
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
35. What were President John F. Kennedy's words on May 25 - 1961?
'Houston - the eagle has landed'
James Lovell - Jr - Frank Bormann - William A. Anders
The landing was different than the landings of the Mercury Program
...
36. What was aboard the second articial satellite that was launched?
Heavy payload and a dog named Laika
November 3 - 1957
Apollo 10
John Glenn
37. What were the first words as man stepped on the moon?
38. Who was the first American to walk in space?
Kennedy decided to overtake the Soviet Union in the 'Space Race' by making a decision to go to the moon. They tried to accomplish this before Russia
'One small step for man - one giant leap for mankind'
Ed White
...
39. What was the second man in space program for the U.S.?
Project Gemini
1958
Apollo 8
7
40. How many flights were in the first man-in-space project for the U.S.?
John F. Kennedy
Command module=Columbia; LEM=Eagle
Command module=Columbia; LEM=Eagle
6
41. What was the importance of the launching of the Explorer I?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
It carried a small scientific payload that discovered the magnetic radiation belts around the earth.
Kennedy decided to overtake the Soviet Union in the 'Space Race' by making a decision to go to the moon. They tried to accomplish this before Russia
'Houston - the eagle has landed'
42. What Apollo mission landed on the moon?
Apollo 11
Scott Carpenter - Gordon Cooper - John Glenn - Gus Grisson - Wally Schirra - Alan Shepard - Deke Slayton
11 - 12 - 14 - 15 - 16 - and 17. Stopped due to low budget
1962
43. Name the 7 original astronauts
Scott Carpenter - Gordon Cooper - John Glenn - Gus Grisson - Wally Schirra - Alan Shepard - Deke Slayton
April 12 - 1961
April 12 - 1981
April 12 - 1961
44. hen was NASA created?
Virgil Ivan Grissom - Edward Higgins White - II - and Roger Bruce Chaffee
1958
Project Gemini
Heavy payload and a dog named Laika
45. Who was the first human to fly in space?
Project Gemini
Yuri Garagin
October 4 - 1957
Russia
46. What is the number of orbits the first American to orbit the earth complete?
John F. Kennedy
Subject man and equipment to space flight up to 2 weeks in duration; to rendezvous and dock with orbiting vehicles and to manuever the docked combination by using the target vehicle's propulsion system; to perfect methods of entering the atmosphere a
Friendship Capsule
3
47. What is the number of orbits the first American to orbit the earth complete?
January 31 - 1958
58 cm in diameter
3
Neil Armstrong - Michael Collins - Edwin Aldrin - Jr.
48. When did the first American orbit the earth?
James Lovell - Jr - Frank Bormann - William A. Anders
ST51
1962
7
49. Why did the Apollo 13 command module not land on the moon?
147 hrs - 42 secs.
'One small step for man - one giant leap for mankind'
Oxygen tank burst
Odyssey; Aquarios
50. What country was the first human to fly in space from?
Subject man and equipment to space flight up to 2 weeks in duration; to rendezvous and dock with orbiting vehicles and to manuever the docked combination by using the target vehicle's propulsion system; to perfect methods of entering the atmosphere a
In response to the Russian Sputnik launch
Russia
Apollo 10