The Real Right Stuff Movie

The president who set the goal to send humans to the moon and returning them to earth was ________.

• Dwight Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

Why is space flight so scary? Select the two correct answers.

• The astronauts are sitting on a potential bomb

• The are so many ways things can go wrong and kill

• Zero gravity is deadly

• We have lost many many astronauts in previous flights

Who was the first American in space?

• Yuri Gagarin

• Alan Sheppard

• John Glenn

• Sputnik

What was the importance of Projects Mercury and Gemini?

• They were "stepping stones" toward achieving the larger goal of going to the moon.

• They revealed how many obstacles there were in going to space.

• They helped the United States spy on their rivals.

• They enabled us to calculate the gravity of the moon.

First satellite in space; Soviet made

• Sputnik I

• Sputnik II

• Explorer I

• Vanguard

What started the space race?

• The launch of Sputnik 1 sent a loud message.

• The creation of the the German V2 missile

• Dr. Goddard's first rocket scared a lot of people

• The building of Apollo 11 was a wake-up call.

Who was the first person to go to space?

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Valentina Tereshkova

• John Glenn

About how many minutes does it take to make one orbit around the Earth in low Earth orbit?

• 30 min.

  half of an hour

• 60 min.

  (1 hour)

• 90 min.

  (1 hour and a half)

• 120 min.

  (2 hours)

Who was the first American to go to space?

• Yuri Gagarin

• Scott Carpenter

• John Glenn

• Alan Shepard

Who was the first American to orbit earth?

• John Glenn

• Alan Shepard

• Yuri Gagarin

• Gus Grissom