Apollo 13 Part 1

Apollo 13 LAUNCH:

• May 5, 1965

• April 11, 1970

• September 11, 2001

• Dec 7, 1941

LAUNCH FROM

• Houston Texas
• Raleigh
• Kennedy Space Center, Florida
• France

Launch Control Center

• Cape Kennedy, FL

• Houston, TX

• San Diego, CA

• Orlando, FL

Mission Control Center

• Cape Kennedy, FL

• Houston, TX

• Seattle, WA

• San Diego, CA

Place the following events in sequence:

A) The Apollo Project begins;

B) The Mercury Project begins;

C) Sputnik I is launched

• ACB

• CBA

• CAB

• ABC

What decade saw the height of the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union?

• The 1950s

• The 1960s

• The 1970s

• The 1980s

What was the function of the lunar modules attached to Apollo spacecraft?

• They provided the thrust and power needed to escape the Earth's gravity

• They delivered astronauts from the main Apollo capsules to the moon's surface

• They enabled the Apollo capsules to land safely on Earth at the ends of their missions

• They contained the computers and radios the astronauts needed to maintain contact with Mission Control

When did man first land on the moon?

• 1969

• 1960

• 1970

• 1972

What was the Apollo Project?

• A series of space flights dedicated to getting American astronauts to the moon.

• A series of rockets designed to go to the Sun.

• A class of astronauts who graduated from MIT.

• An unpublished Percy Jackson novel.

Project Apollo was a follow up to ______ which successfully __________.

• Project Mercury, put a dog, Laika, on the moon,

• Project Moon Race, put a monkey in orbit

• Project Einstein, launched a satellite to spy on the Russians

• Project Mercury, put an American (human) in orbit