Space Comprehension

What is Exploring Space with an Astronaut mainly about?

• the tools on the space shuttle

• what astronauts do in space

• space suits that astronauts wear

• a robot arm

The author wanted to

• give facts about astronauts

• tell about the Earth and Sun

• show that astronauts like to study

• tell you how fun space is

What is one way that space is different from Earth?

• The moon is always out.

• There is no light.

• There is no air.

• People do experiments.

Astronauts go into space to

• learn to fly

• do experiments

• watch movies

• to grow plants

Why did Eileen Collins and the other astronauts work as a team?

• because there were many jobs to do

• because she did not know how to fly the shuttle

• because the astronauts floated everywhere

• because she needed help lifting the telescope

What is one tool that astronauts use in space?

• food

• a sleeping bag

• a robot arm

• gravity

A space shuttle takes off like a rocket and lands like a(n)

• rocket.

• airplane.

• helicopter.

• space capsule.

Eileen Collins was the first ___________ to be a space shuttle pilot.

• person

• American

• woman

• teacher

In space there is no _____________.

• air

• gravity

• up

• all of the above

Astronauts use a robot arm to ___________ people and things outside the space shuttle.

• move

• find

• throw

• hit