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Space Race—Internet Activity

Using the reference site(s), answer the following questions.

http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/concepts_spacerace.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program

  1. What were the3 firsts that the Soviets had in Space?
  2. How was the Soviet space program initially boosted following WWII?
  3. Who was Sergey Korolyov?  What was he charged with?
  4. What was the first earth made satellite in space?  When did it go up?
  5. What was the first animal in space?
  6. Who was the first man in space?  When did this happen?
  7. Who was the first woman in space?  When?
  8. Who performed the first EVA (Space Walk)?  When?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_(spacecraft)

  1. What is a Soyuz?  Why are they so well known?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mercury

  1. What was the name of the first human spaceflight program of the United States?
  2. What was the goal of the program?
  3. Who were the first seven men picked for the program—known as the “Mercury Seven”?
  4.  Who was the first American into space?
  5. Who was the first American to orbit the earth?
  6. How much did Mercury cost in 1950s/60s Dollars?  In today’s $?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gemini

http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1579/1

  1. What were the program objectives for the Gemini Program?
  2. How many Gemini flights were there?  How many of these were manned flights What did the Gemini program cost in 1960s Dollars?  In today’s $?
  3. What launch vehicle was used for Gemini?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gemini_astronauts

19. Who were the “New Nine” or the Astronaut Group 2 Astronauts?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program

20..What were the goals of the Apollo program?How many men were there on the flights?

21.What is the difference between the CSM and LM(Originally known as the LEM)?

22. What was the launch vehicle for the Apollo missions designed to go to the moon?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun

23. Who was Wernher von Braun?  How was he important to the U.S. efforts in Space?

http://space.about.com/cs/astronautbios/a/apollo1.htm

24. What happened to Apollo 1?

25. What were major findings or causes of the accident?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_3

26.Who were the Group 3 astronauts?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7

27. What was the first manned Apollo flight?

http://www.astronomytoday.com/exploration/apollo.html

28.What Apollo missions landed on the moon?

29.Why do you think they landed in different areas?

http://historical.whatitcosts.com/facts-apollo-space-program.htm

30. What did the Apollo program cost in 1960s dollars and today dollars?

Extra Credit

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090721-apollo-11-moonlanding-quiz.html

*. Take the Apollo 11 Quiz and record your score.