Space Exploration

Phase 1 of USA’s goal to get to the Moon. Sent the first piloted spacecraft around Earth

• Project Gemini
• Project Apollo
• Project X
• Project Mercury

What is designed and built to transport people and cargo between Earth and space?

• space rocket
• space shuttle
• space probe
• telescope

Country that landed the first man on the Moon

• Soviet Union (Russia)
• Iceland
• China
• USA

What country was the first to put a man into space?

• USA
• Canada
• Russia
• England

Astronaut spacesuits include an oxygen delivery system because 

• there is less gravity in space. 
• space has nitrogen-rich air. 
• asteroids dissolve in oxygen. 
• space is an airless vacuum. 

Reusable spacecraft that transports astronauts, satellites, and other materials to and from space.

• Space ship
• Space shuttle
• Voyager 1
• Space station

Which portion of the electromagnetic spectrum includes the entire range of light that can be detected by the human eye? 

• ultraviolet light
• visible light
• infrared light
• x-rays

Instrument that travels into the solar system, gathers information and sends it back to Earth

• Space shuttle
• Rocket
• Space ship
• Space probe

the moon orbiting the earth is an example of:

• natural satellite

• artificial satellite

Phase 2 of getting to the Moon. Orbited teams of 2 astronauts

• Project Gemini
• Project Moon
• Project Apollo
• Project Mercury