And Away We Go: Rockets

1. was the first to launch a rocket into space.

• a. Robert Goddard

• b. Neil Armstrong

• c. Barbara Askins

2- The astronaut ___________________took his first step on the moon.

• a. Robert Goddard

• b. Barbara Askins

• c. Neil Armstrong

______________ have sent spacecraft without crews to Mars and Jupiter.

• a. rockets

• b. planes

• c. the Difference Engine

2- A rocket is a type of _______________

• a. wheel

• b. engine

• c. truck

A ______________can produce about

3,000 times more power than a car engine of the same size.

• a. transistor

• b. rocket

• c. Difference Engine

The _______________invented rockets more than 1,000 years ago.

• a. Americans

• b. Germans

• c. Chinese

2- The first rockets were tubes packed with ________________ .

• a. gunpowder

• b. oil

• c. carbon

_________________________invented a way to improve photographs taken from space.

• a. Robert Goddard

• b. Barbara Askins

• c. Neil Armstrong

2- Doctors can now take better X-ray images because of invention to improve photographs.

• a. Barbara Askins’s

• b. Robert Goddard’s

• c. Neil Armstrong’s

2- Propellant is a ____________ , such as gasoline or liquid hydrogen,

plus oxygen.

• a. gas

• b. engine

• c. fuel