AY Honor Space Exploration Answer Key

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Space Exploration

Skill Level

Unknown

Year

2006

Version

29.03.2024

Approval authority

Florida Conference

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Space Exploration
Regional
Skill Level
???
Approval authority
Florida Conference
Year of Introduction
2006


1

Know and discuss who each of these people were and their contribution to space exploration:


1a

Robert H. Goddard



1b

Hermann Oberth



1c

Wernher Von Braun



1d

Galileo Galilei



1e

Neil Armstrong



1f

Sally K. Ride



1g

John Glenn



1h

Yuri Gagarin



1i

Laika



1j

Sam



1k

Valentina Tereshkova



1l

Alan Shepard




2

Explain what these acronyms stand for:


2a

NASA



2b

VAB



2c

EVA



2d

STS



2e

EMU



2f

MMU




3

Describe each of these space programs:


3a

Mercury



3b

Gemini



3c

Apollo



3d

Skylab



3e

Space Shuttle



3f

Apollo-Soyuz




4

What was Sputnik?



5

The Apollo 8 astronauts were in lunar orbit on Christmas day, 1968. They each read from a book and their readings were broadcast back to Earth. What was the name of the book?



6

Earn the Star Honor.


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