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Science NASA Emily B
Wilson Hall NASA Science Notes - 6th grade
Question | Answer |
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Oct. 1st, 1958 | NASA was founded |
Air & Water | Fluids |
1961 | first USA man in space |
1962 | first man orbited Earth |
1961 - 1963 | Mercury Project |
1965 - 1966 | Gemini Project |
1967 - 1978 | Apollo Project |
Main Purpose of Apollo | Put men on the moon |
fluids have ability to | take the shape of a container |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
aero | air |
naus | ship |
nautic | ship |
purposes of Mercury Project | orbit manned spacecraft, recover man and craft, and investigate man's ability to function in space |
Russia launched | Sputnik I |
Alan Shepard's spacecraft | Freedom 7 |
Mercury was | Roman false god - messenger; traveler |
Purpose of Gemini Project | rondevoing and docking with other spacecrafts |
Gemini 8 pilot | Niel Armstrong |
Gemini 12 pilot | "Buzz" Aldrin |
Capsules wer called so because... | They were so small the men could barely fit in it. |
astro | star |
astronaut | star sailor |
What happened on Apollo I? | fire on launch pad killed the crew |
CM | command module |
LM | lunar module |
SM | service module |
module | a part that has a specific purpose or function |
Apollo missions had no crew 'til... | Apollo 7 |
Apollos 11 12 14 15 16 17 all | landed on the moon |
all manned Apollo flights had | a crew of 3 men |
Apollo 11 crew | Buzz Aldrin, Niel Armstrong, & Michael Collins |
Houston | communication center for NASA |
Cape Canaveral, FL | launch center for NASA |
Apollo 15 | 1st to use lunar rover |
Apollo 17 | last men on moon |
1975 | Apollo 18 & Russian Soyuz docked in space |
Apollo 16 | Charlie Duke from SC walked on the moon - got lunar rover to 18 mph |
lunar | moon |
Apollo 13 | O2 tanks exploded, crew climbed into LM and aimed at Earth |
Alan Shepard's flight lasted | 15 min. |