AY Honor Space Exploration Answer Key
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Space Exploration
Skill Level
Unknown
Year
2006
Version
25.12.2024
Approval authority
Florida Conference
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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