NASA and the Apollo Missions

Where were the APOLLO missions launched from?

• Houston, Texas

• The Pacific Ocean

• Cape Kennedy, Florida

• NASA

What decade saw the height of the "Space Race" between the United States and the Soviet Union?

• the 1950's

• the 1960's

• the 1970's

• the 1980's

What was the function of the lunar modules (LM) attached to Apollo spacecraft?

• They provided the thrust and power needed to escape the Earth's gravity.

• They delivered astronauts from the main Apollo capsules to the moon's surface.

• They enabled the Apollo capsules to land safely on Earth at the ends of their missions.

• They contained the computers and radios the astronauts needed to maintain contact with Mission Control.

When did man first land on the moon?

• 1969

• 1960

• 1970

• 1972

What was the Apollo Project?

• an unpublished Percy Jackson novel

• a class of astronauts who graduated from MIT

• a series of rockets designed to go to the Sun

• a series of space flights dedicated to getting American astronauts to the moon

Project Apollo was a follow up to ______ which successfully __________.

• Project Mercury, put a dog, Laika, on the moon,

• Project Moon Race, put a monkey in orbit

• Project Einstein, launched a satellite to spy on the Russians

• Project Mercury, which put an American (human) in orbit

Who declared that the United States would put a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s?

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• John F Kennedy

• Bill Clinton

• Barack Obama

The Soviets won the first few rounds of the Space Race by putting the first ____ and first ____ into Earth Orbit.

• fish, dog

• insect, human

• animal (dog), human

• animal (monkey), robot

Apollo ___ finally launched three astronauts into space in October of 1968.

• 2

• 4

• 7

• 9

Apollo ___ carried the last astronauts to the moon and back in 1972. The Apollo Project formally ended two years later.

• 14

• 15

• 16

• 17