WorksheetsBrief History of Space Travel
Total questions: 31
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This country was the first to use rockets.
a)
USA
b)
China
c)
Russia
d)
Japan
2.
Rockets were really focused on beginning in which century?
a)
19th
b)
18th
c)
20th
d)
21st
3.
These three countries each a scientist that was working on rockets.
a)
Russia, USA, Germany
b)
Russia, China, Japan
c)
Germany, France, England
d)
USA, China, Spain
4.
In the 1930's and 1940's ________Germany started to use long-distance rockets as weapons.
a)
Central
b)
Northern
c)
Southern
d)
Nazi
5.
In World War _____, ________was attacked by a German missile from 200 miles away.
a)
I, New York
b)
III, London
c)
II, London
d)
I, Germany
6.
The United States and the Soviet Union(Russia) created their own missile programs AFTER WWII.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
What was the first artificial satellite launched into space?
a)
Apollo 11
b)
Sputnik 1
c)
Apollo 13
d)
Columbia
8.
The________ were the first ones to launch a satellite into space.
a)
Americans
b)
Spanish
c)
French
d)
Soviets
9.
Who was the first human to orbit the Earth?
a)
Yuri Gagarin
b)
Neil Armstrong
c)
Buzz Aldrin
d)
John Glenn
10.
What was the first US satellite to orbit the Earth?
a)
Sputnik 1
b)
Explorer 1
c)
Apollo 11
d)
Apollo 13
11.
Who was the first American to fly into space?
a)
Alan Shepard
b)
John Glenn
c)
Neil Armstrong
d)
Yuri Gagarin
12.
__________ was the first American to orbit the Earth.
a)
Neil Armstrong
b)
Yuri Gagarin
c)
Buzz Aldrin
d)
John Glenn
13.
Who was the president at the time that had the goal of landing a man on the moon?
a)
John F. Kennedy
b)
Ronald Reagan
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Barak Obama
14.
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
a)
Neil Armstrong
b)
Buzz Aldrin
c)
Yuri Gagarin
d)
John Glenn
15.
What was the date of the first moon landing?
a)
July 4, 1985
b)
July 20, 1969
c)
August 1, 1950
d)
September 11, 2001
16.
How many Apollo missions were made to explore the moon between 1969 and 1972?
a)
1
b)
2
c)
5
d)
6
17.
During the 1960's unmanned spacecraft DID NOT photograph the moon before astronauts landed.
a)
True
b)
False
18.
What was the planet that the Mariner spacecraft was mapping?
a)
Jupiter
b)
Pluto
c)
Mars
d)
Mercury
19.
The Voyager spacecraft sent back pictures of what two planets?
a)
Jupiter and Saturn
b)
Mars and Venus
c)
Earth and Pluto
d)
Mercury and Pluto
20.
What was America's first space station?
a)
Sunlab
b)
Space Invader
c)
Skylab
d)
Moon Quest
21.
What decade did satellites first send signals back to Earth?
a)
1980's
b)
1970's
c)
2000's
d)
1960's
22.
Satellites discovered the Ozone hole over what continent?
a)
North America
b)
South America
c)
Africa
d)
Antarctica
23.
Satellites photographed the nuclear disaster at ___________ in 1986.
a)
3 Mile Island
b)
Chernobyl
c)
Kansas City
d)
New York City
24.
In April 1981 the first space shuttle was launched. What was it's name?
a)
Challenger
b)
Columbia
c)
Enterprise
d)
Apollo
25.
The space shuttle was made to be reused over an over.
a)
True
b)
False
26.
There were ______ successful shuttle missions.
a)
24
b)
10
c)
2
d)
6
27.
On January 1986, space shuttle ___________ exploded killing 7 crew members including a teacher,
a)
Challenger
b)
Columbia
c)
Apollo
d)
Endevour
28.
This war proved the value of satellites in modern conflicts.
a)
World War I
b)
Korean Conflict
c)
Gulf War
d)
Revolutionary War
29.
Satellites are alos useful for homeland defense, weather, surveillance, navigation, and _________.
a)
Communications
b)
Ordering food
c)
Cleaning the garage
d)
Finding Nemo
30.
The __________ is a research lab in low Earth orbit.
a)
Skylab
b)
Moon Quest
c)
International Space Station
31.
In ________ the space shuttle Columbia had a disaster on re-entry.
a)
2003
b)
1986
c)
2000
d)
1999
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