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| Year did the Wright brothers flew the first airplane |
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| First Apollo mission to land on the moon |
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| Apollo spacecraft that had a fire in the cockpit, killing the crew |
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| Last Apollo mission to land on the moon |
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| Apollo mission struck by lightening during launch |
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| First manned Apollo mission in space |
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| First Apollo mission to orbit the moon |
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| First Apollo mission to use the lunar rover |
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| Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were on this Apollo crew |
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Apollo 11
(1969)
First men on the moon |
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| Pete Conrad was the commander of this Apollo mission |
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| Apollo mission used as a dress rehearsal for the lunar landing |
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| First artificial (man-made) satellite |
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| Space shuttle that exploded on take-off |
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Yuri Gagarian
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(1961) |
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| First American to orbit Earth |
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| The seven Mercury astronauts |
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Malcolm Scott Carpenter
Gordon Cooper
John Glenn
Gus Grissom
Wally Schirra
Alan Shepard
D.K. "Deke" Slayton |
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| Space program which followed the Mercury space program |
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| Discoverer of the Universal Law of Gravity |
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| The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor on this date |
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| First pilot to break the sound barrier |
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| First organism sent into space |
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Laika, the dog
Russian
(1957) |
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Valentina Tereshkova
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(1961) |
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| First American to fly in space |
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| First humans landed on the moon on this date |
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| What happened to Apollo 13? |
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Oxygen tank ruptured
Mission to the moon aborted
Astronauts returned safely |
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| Number of Apollo missions to land on the moon |
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| What is the space shuttle? |
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Space Transportation System (STS)
Reusable launch system & space craft
Operated by NASA for human spaceflight missions |
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| National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| Names of the six space shuttles |
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Enterprise
Columbia
Challenger
Discovery
Atlantis
Endeavor |
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| Space shuttle which disintegrated during re-entry of earth's atmosphere |
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| What program is intended to replace the space shuttle? |
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Project Constellation
To ferry passengers & cargo to the International Space Station & to travel to the moon and Mars |
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| The twelve astronauts who walked on the moon |
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Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Bean
Pete Conrad
Edgar Mitchell
Alan Shepard
David Scott
James Irwin
James Young
Charles Duke
Eugene Cernan
Harrison Schmitt
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