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NASA Space Program

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. What is the LEM?


8. What were the first words from the moon?


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






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






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






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






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






14. hen was NASA created?






15. What is the LEM?


16. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






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






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






19. What date was the first articial satellite launched?






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






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






22. When was the 2nd artificial satellite launched?






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






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






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






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






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






28. hen was NASA created?






29. When was the first space shuttle launched?






30. What was the objective of the Apollo Program?






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






32. When did the first American orbit the earth?






33. What tragedy struck Apollo I?






34. Why was NASA created?






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






36. When was the Explorer I launched?






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






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


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






40. What country launched the first artificial satellite?






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






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


43. What Apollo mission landed on the moon?






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


45. Name the astronauts of Apollo I






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






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






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






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






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