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Pioneers in Rocketry

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who discovered that white light is made of many colors?

a)

Sir Isaac Newton

b)

Sir Isaac Jacob

c)

Abraham Bell

d)

Nicolas Tesla

2.

What is speed of light?

a)

186 miles per hour

b)

1860 miles per hour

c)

18600 miles per second

d)

186000 miles per second

3.

Who was the first astronomer to make extensive use of the telescope?

a)

Plato

b)

Heron

c)

Galileo

d)

Pythagoras

4.

Who is the father of modern rocketry?

Type his complete name.

(a)  

5.

Who is the most knowledgeable astronautical engineer in the world?

Type his complete name.

(a)  

6.

Who invented reflecting telescope? Type his full name.

(a)  

7.

What are the astronauts?

a)

people who journey into space

b)

space cop

c)

spaceship

d)

star-man

8.

The first artificial object to orbit the earth from Russian

a)

Vostok 1

b)

Sputnik 1

c)

Apollo

d)

Gemini

9.

The first person to travel in space

a)

Ala shepard

b)

John Glenn

c)

Valentina Tereshkova

d)

Yuri Garin

10.

The first person in space with fifteen minute hop in a Mercury spacecraft.

a)

Yuri Garin

b)

Alan Shepard

c)

Valentina Tereshkova

d)

John Glenn