Lessons 7-8 Space programmes

The Earth, Mars and Jupiter are all planets in our.....................

• satellite

• solar system

In 1991, Dr Helen Sharman was the first British ..................... to travel into space.

• space station

• astronaut

Every ........ you can see in the night sky is bigger than our sun.

• star

• rocket

In 1969, the US launched a ................to the moon using a Saturn V rocket.

• mission

• planet

The Earth is situated in a spiral............ called the Milky Way.

• orbit

• galaxy

Astronauts "oat in space because there is ...................

• zero gravity

• star

The Earth has one .............. but Jupiter has 67.

• moon

• galaxy