AY Honors/Space Exploration/Answer Key

Space Exploration

Skill Level

Unknown

Year

2006

Version

22.11.2024

Approval authority

Florida Conference

1

Know and discuss who each of these people were and their contribution to space exploration:

1a

Robert H. Goddard

1b

Hermann Oberth

1c

Wernher Von Braun

1d

Galileo Galilei

1e

Neil Armstrong

1f

Sally K. Ride

1g

John Glenn

1h

Yuri Gagarin

1i

Laika

1j

Sam

1k

Valentina Tereshkova

1l

Alan Shepard

2

Explain what these acronyms stand for:

2a

NASA

2b

VAB

2c

EVA

2d

STS

2e

EMU

2f

MMU

3

Describe each of these space programs:

3a

Mercury

3b

Gemini

3c

Apollo

3d

Skylab

3e

Space Shuttle

3f

Apollo-Soyuz

4

What was Sputnik?

5

The Apollo 8 astronauts were in lunar orbit on Christmas day, 1968. They each read from a book and their readings were broadcast back to Earth. What was the name of the book?

6

Earn the Star Honor.

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