WorksheetsSpaceflight History and Mars
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
John Glenn was the first American to...
Go into space
Break the sound barrier
Orbit the Earth
Space walk
Who was the first American in space?
Glenn
Armstrong
Shepard
Grissom
What was the name of the first satellite launched by the United States Space Program?
Explorer I
Challenger 13
Gemini 12
Constellation I
Which Apollo mission carried the astronauts that walked on the moon?
One
Six
Eleven
Fourteen
Who was the 1st American woman in space?
Tereshkova
Ride
Williams
Armstrong
What year did man first step on the moon?
1965
1967
1969
1971
What telescope was launched in the Space Shuttle Discovery Mission
Coronal
Hubble
Halley
Van Allen
Mars is the ________ planet from the sun
If you weighed 100 lbs. on Earth, you would weigh_____lbs. on Mars
100 lbs.
200.lbs.
83 lbs.
38 lbs.
A year on Mars is almost ___________ times as long as a year on Earth
Three
Four
Twice
Six
Mars is also often described as the
"Yellow Planet"
"Brown Planet"
"Silver Planet"
“Red Planet”
Mars is about _______ the size of Earth.
1/4
1/3
1/2
the same
Why is Mars red?
Oxidation of iron in the soil
The sun is farther away and looks red from the Martian atmosphere
It's closer to the sun than earth and got sunburned
