1950's Modern Space Exploration

1950's Modern Space Exploration

9th - 12th Grade

18 Qs

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1950's Modern Space Exploration

1950's Modern Space Exploration

Assessment

Quiz

Science

9th - 12th Grade

Practice Problem

Easy

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MS-ETS1-3, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-2

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18 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Russia explodes a nuclear bomb in 1949 starting what 45 year event?

space race

world wars 1, 2, and 3

cold war

great depression

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What do the letters in "NASA" represent?

National Astronaut Space Association

National Astronauts and Space Academy

Nations Aeronautics and Space Exploration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The first event of the space race happened when Russia launched this first ever satellite to orbit the Earth.

Explorer One

Sputnik

Apollo 1

Starship Enterprise

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Nov 3, 1957 saw Russia send up Sputnik 2 carrying this first animal to orbit the Earth.

Laika - a dog

fruit flies

Ham - a chimpanzee

Felix - a cat

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

On April 12, 1961 Russia put this man into orbit around the Earth for 108 minutes.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Vladimir Komarov

Viktor Vostok

Yuri Gagarin

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The first American in space was

Alan Shepard

Neil Armstrong

John Glenn

James T. Kirk

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Facility that manages space flights, usually from the point of launch until landing - the ground segment of operations.

Space Force

Kennedy Space Center

Mission Control

Patterson Air Force Base

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