Comp Check #18 Review

What do the acronyms NASA stand for?

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration

• National Air and Space Administration

• National Aerial and Science Applications

• National and Southern Conference of Astronauts

Who was the 1st American to orbit Earth?

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

• Yuri Gregarin

• Alan Shepard

This was the name of the mission in which the US set our sights on getting to the Moon.

• Explorer I

• The Mercury Project

• The Gemini Program

• Project Apollo

Discovered 4 moons of Jupiter

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Newton

First man to walk on the Moon

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagarin

• Alan Shephard

• Valentina Tereshkova

Came up with heliocentrism

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Newton

Discovered that the orbit of Mars is elliptical

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Newton

Discovered that gravity exists throughout the universie

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Newton

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Which country was the first to launch a space rocket

• China

• Spain

• Russia

• United States

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What is the name of the dog that the Russians sent into orbit?

• Laika

• Oreo

• Lenin

• Layla