B2 Apollo Moon Landing

Multiple Choice

The Apollo Moon Landing

50 years ago, on July 20th, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neill Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to

_____ their foot on the moon.

• lay

• locate

• set

• put

Multiple Choice

The United States had won the space race with the Soviet Union. After _____ from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on July 16th the lunar module Eagle landed on the moon's _____ . Four days after the lunar landing Apollo 11 successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean.

• to take off / floor

• take off / level

• took off / ground

• taking off / surface

Multiple Choice

The race to the moon began in 1962 when President John F

Kennedy _____ that America would land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

• spoke out

• declared

• posted

• published

Multiple Choice

In the following years, the American space agency NASA received large amounts of government _____ in order to achieve a lunar landing.

• income

• spending

• donating

• funding

Multiple Choice

The Apollo spacecraft consisted of the command and service module, _____ the lunar landing module that would bring two astronauts to the moon's surface and take off again to successfully dock with the command module.

• as well as

• in addition

• such as

• and even

Multiple Choice

A _____ rocket, the Saturn V, was built to escape from Earth's orbit.

• distinct

• hard

• strengthy

• powerful

Multiple Choice

NASA's space programme _____ a catastrophic setback in 1967 when three Apollo astronauts died in a fire _____ practicing on the ground at Cape Kennedy.

• suffered / while

• tolerated / through

• stood / whenever

• felt / during

Multiple Choice

About 600 million people around the world watched the _____ moon landing. Neill Armstrong's first words on the moon are among the most _____ in history: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".

• ancient / unknown

• important / decided

• major / marked

• historic / famous

Multiple Choice

All in all, the Apollo programme sent 9 spacecraft to the moon in the 60s and 70s. Six of them _____ astronauts on the lunar surface. About 400 kilos of lunar rock were collected and brought back to earth.

• were landing

• have landed

• landed

• were landed

Multiple Choice

50 years after the first moon landing events all across the US have been organised to celebrate this historic and technological _____ .

• invention

• discovery

• development

• achievement