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Women in Space

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was the first woman in space?

a)

Valentina Tereshkova

b)

Sally Ride

c)

Svetlana Savitskaya

d)

Eileen Collins

2.

Which of the four women here are on ISS Expedition 23?

a)

Naoko Yamazaki

b)

Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger

c)

Tracy Caldwell Dyson

d)

Stephanie Wilson

3.

What did NASA astronaut Sally Ride achieve in her career?

a)

Space Shuttle Pilot on STS-2 and 3

b)

Developed Canadarm for the Space Shuttle

c)

Flew twice on Space Shuttle Columbia

d)

Investigated Challenger and Columbia disasters

e)

Deployed the Orion 1 Telescope

4.

What did astronaut Kathryn Dwyer Sullivan achieve during her career?

a)

Developed Canadarm for the Space Shuttle

b)

Did the first EVA by an American woman

c)

Helped deploy the Hubble Space Telescope

d)

Went on a solo space mission

5.

How much time did NASA astronaut Peggy Annette Whitson spend on EVA?

a)

~ 36 hours

b)

~ 48 hours

c)

~ 60 hours

d)

~ 72 hours

e)

~ 84 hours

6.

How long was Peggy Annette Whitson's record-setting spaceflight?

(a)  

7.

Who participated in the first all-female spacewalk and when did it happen?

a)

Kathryn Sullivan & Eileen Collins; October 11, 1984.

b)

Kathryn Sullivan & Eileen Collins; April 24, 1990.

c)

Christina Koch & Jessica Meir; March 14, 2019.

d)

Christina Koch & Jessica Meir; October 18, 2019.

8.

How long was Christina Koch's spaceflight?

(a)  

9.

What did Eileen Collins help deploy in July 1999?

a)

Mir

b)

Canadarm on the ISS

c)

James Webb Telescope

d)

Chandra X-Ray Telescope

e)

Keck Telescope

10.

When did Eileen Collins first pilot Space Shuttle Discovery?

(a)  

11.

Nothing here, just a free cookie for your participation. Thanks for supporting the first part of our WSW 2021!

a)

:)

b)

:-)

c)

:D

d)

c: