| A | B |
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| this is a kind of test scientists do to answer their questions | expirement |
| this makes things fall when they are dropped | gravity |
| name of the first successful satellite | Sputnik 1 |
| Sputnik 1 weighed ______ pounds | 185 |
| Sputnik 1 was in orbit for how long? | 96 days |
| in Russian, sputnik means.... | little traveler |
| the country that launched the first succeful satellite | U.S.S.R. (NOT Russia) |
| the first U.S. successful satellite | Explorer 1 |
| Explorer 1 was launched when? | Jan 31, 1958 |
| Explorer 1 was _____ pounds | 30 |
| Explorer 1 was how tall? | 6 1/2 feet |
| Explorer 1 stayed in orbit for 9 years. TRUE or FALSE? | FALSE, it was in orbit for 12 years |
| what Explorer 1 discovered | a radiation belt called Van Allen |
| name the first animal in space | a dog named Laika (nickname was Muttnik) |
| Laika was launched into space on _______ | Nov 3, 1957 |
| Tiros 1 was the first what? | weather satellite |
| Where isTiros 1 from? (USA or U.S.S.R.) | USA |
| This discovered a gas layer around the moon | Luna 2 |
| The project that sent back the first clear pictures of the moon | the Ranger Project |
| First living thing to go into space sent from the USA | A chimpanzee named Ham |
| first man in space | Yuri Gugarin (U.S.S.R.) |
| wore the first pressurized space suit | "Gus" Grissom |
| first man to go into space twice | "Gus" Grissom |
| first american to orbit earth | John H. Glenn |
| first woman in space | Valentina Tereshkova |
| What does the acronym EVA stand for? | ExtraVehicular Activity |
| how fast the moon moves in a day | 50,000 MILES A DAY |
| the 3 astronauts from Apollo 11 | Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin |
| Neil Armstrongs famous line after stepping out on the moon | "Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" |
| he made the first space walk | Ed White |
| when was the first manned orbit of the moon?By USA or U.S.S.R.? | Dec 21-27 1968...USA |
| the name of the craft that landed on the moon | lunar module or the LM-5 Eagle |
| the first two men to walk on the moon | Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong |
| first satellite the U.S. tried to launch | Vanguard Rocket |
| there were _____ Mercury astronauts | 7 |
| Ham who launched in 1971 lasted in flight for ____ minutes | 17 |
| Alan shepherd lasted in space for____ minutes | 15 |
| the project after mercury | Gemini |
| what happened on Jan. 27, 1967? | Apollo 1 caught on fire. Ed white, "Gus" Grissom, and Roger Chaffee died. |
| After visting the moon, the astronauts had to stay in quarantine for how many days because of their "moon germs" | 17 days!!! |
| What happened on Apollo 13? | an oxygen tank exploded (they survived) |
| In 1971 Mariner 10 did a flyby of which planet? | Mercury |
| the largest volcano on Mars | Olympus Mons (2x taller than Mt. Everest!) |
| Dried riverbeds on Mars show what? | there might have been water on Mars |
| Hydrogen+Helium+Liquid Metal make up what planet? | Jupiter |
| this probe spotted 9 seperate eruptions on Io | Voyager |
| this is 4 miles deep and as long as the usa | the "Grand Canyon" of Mars |
| Europa has a ...... | a smooth surface of ice |
| what make up saturn's rings? | chunks of ice, dust, and rocks |
| the second largest moon in our Solar System | Titan (belongs to Jupiter) |
| the only planet tilted on its side | Uranus |
| rotating storm on Neptune | the Great Dark Spot |
| rotating storm on Jupiter | the Great Red Spot |
| first lift off of Columbia | April 12, 1981 |
| Enterprise proved what in 1977? | that a shuttle coud fly/glide back from space to safety on land |
| Challenger exploded when? | January 1986 |
| astronauts trained where to prepare to fix the Hubbell Telescope | they trained underwater |
| these things happn when your body is in 0-gravity | bones and muscles get weaker and your heart gets larger |
| measures the fluctuating energy of the Sun | Atlas |
| the cost to build the Hubbell Telescope | 2 BILLION!!! |
| the time it took Galileo to reach Jupiter | 6 years |
