| A | B |
|---|
| Father of Rocketry | Robert Goddard |
| First flight | Wright bros. 1903 |
| Sputnik | 1957 First satellite in space-Russian |
| Oct1958 | NASA forms |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| 1959 | Russian probe crashes into moon |
| Yuri Gagarin | 1st Russian in space April 1961 |
| Alan Shephard | 1st American (USA) in space May 1961 |
| Apollo 11 | July 20, 1969 1st moon landing - astronauts Neil Armstron and Ed "Buzz" Aldrin and Mike Collins |
| Neil Armstrong | 1st to step onto the moon |
| "That's one small step for Man, One Giant leap for Mankind" | Neil Armstrong said this when he stpped off the LEM onto the Moon |
| 1st Shuttle launch | Columbia 12APR1981 STS 1 |
| STS | Space Transportation System |
| Eagle | name of apollo 11 LEM |
| Sea of tranquility | Apollo 11 LEM (Eagle) landing site |
| Sally Ride | 1st US female astronaut |
| Challenger Tragedy | Jan. 28, 1986 exploded 73 sec into launch - O rings froze |
| Columbia disaster | Feb 1, 2003 - Disintegrated on re-entry from space - foam breaks off on launch putting a 10 in. hole in the L. wing. |
| Christa Mc Auliffe | Astronaut teacher who perished in the STS 51 Challenger explosion |
| Valentina Tereshkova | 1st Russian Women in space |
| Enterprise | Only shuttle that did not go into space |
| 5 OV's | Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavor, Atlantis |
| Sailing ships/vessels | What all shuttles are named after |
| John Young, Robert Crippen | 2 astronauts onboard 1st shuttle STS-1 |
| Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center | site in Florida where NASA launches all Shuttles |
| SRB | Solid Rocket Boosters |
| OV | Orbital Vehicle |
| ET | External Fuel Tank |
