1950's Modern Space Exploration

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

• space race

• world wars 1, 2, and 3

• cold war

• great depression

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.

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

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

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

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Vladimir Komarov

• Viktor Vostok

• Yuri Gagarin

The first American in space was

• Alan Shepard

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

• James T. Kirk

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

He is best known for directing the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of Apollo 13.

• Gene Kranz

• Buzz Aldrin

• Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn

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Where was the first Mission Control Center built?

• Cleveland, OH

• Houston, TX

• Cape Canaveral, FL

• San Diego, CA

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade, and do other things, not because they're easy, but because they're hard."

• Neil Armstrong

• John F. Kennedy

• Ronald Reagan

• Theodore Roosevelt

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