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Who is known as “The Father of Modern Rocketry”?
The
The
Pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier first the first time on
On what date did the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union begin?
What spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union began the Space Race?
Explain one important event connected to space technology that took place in 1959.
Alan Shepard was famous for being
Who was the first woman to fly into space?
Explain one important event connected to space technology that took place in 1964.
Why is Mariner-4 considered an important spacecraft connected to the Space Race?
The
What tragic event happened to Apollo-1?
One fact about Apollo-7 is
On what date did the Apollo-11 astronauts land on the moon?
The People’s Republic of China enter the Space Race on
Explain one fact about Mariner 9.
Explain one fact about Pioneer 10.
Explain one fact about Apollo 17
Explain one fact about Mariner 10.
On what date was the European Space Agency (ESA) formed?
Voyager 1 did a
Skylab was the
What was the first spacecraft used by NASA for the Space Shuttle Program?
Who was Sally Ride?
Explain one historic event in the Space Race that happened in 1986.
The Hubble Space Telescope was first put into space on
In 1995 what space station did the Space Shuttle Discovery dock with?
What happened to the Mir space station in 2001?
Name one tragedy that occurred in 2003 during the Space Race.
The
The first fact about NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is
The first fact about NASA’s DAWN spacecraft is
Peggy Whiston was the
On what date did the Space Race turn 50?
Revisit the timeline, what country launches a satellite that is not the United States or Soviet Union?
Drag the following key vocabulary space technology terms in alphabetical order.
Drag the following science vocabulary terms in alphabetical order.