Test 4: 10A Flashcards
(21 cards)
Sputnik 1
What is the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth?
Explorer 1
What is the name of the first artificial satellite that the U.S. put into orbit around the Earth?
Telstar 1
What is the name of the first telecommunications satellite to orbit the Earth?
Yuri Gargarin
What is the name of the first person to orbit the earth?
Russia
What country did the first person to orbit the earth come from?
Alan B. Shepard
What is the name of the first American in space?
Gus Grissom
What is the name of the second American in space?
John Glenn
What is the name of the first American to orbit the Earth?
Rice University in Texas
At what university did President Kennedy give his “We choose to go to the Moon” speech?
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Which two Apollo 11 astronauts first stepped on the Moon in July of 1969?
Sea of Tranquility
Where did Apollo land on the Moon?
17
How many Apollo Moon Landings were there?
6
How many Apollo missions succeeded in landing men on the Moon?
12
How many men walked on the surface of the Moon?
The Wright Brothers
Which were the first individuals were first to achieve heavier-than-air, fixed wing, controlled and powered flight?
Charles Lindberg
What is the name of the first man to fly from the U.S. to Europe?
Amelia Earhart
What is the name of the first woman to fly solo and non-stop across the Atlantic?
Pioneer 10
What unmanned mission produced the first closeup images of Jupiter?
Pioneer 11
What unmanned mission produced the first closeup images of Saturn?
Viking 1
What was the first mission to soft land on Mars and send pictures back?
Voyager 2
What was the first unmanned mission to fly by Uranus and Neptune?
