Ch. 25: Space Exploration

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  1. 2. the first man to walk on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission was Neil _____
  2. 5. the first man in space was Yuri _____ from the Soviet Union
  3. 12. NASA's 3-man spacecraft which included all the missions to land on the moon was Project _____
  4. 13. the first American space station, launched in 1973
  5. 15. the first woman in space, from the Soviet Union, was Valentina _____
  6. 16. the first American to orbit the earth and who later became the oldest man to go to space was John _____
  7. 17. the first American woman in space was Sally _____
  8. 18. the teacher who was to be the first civilian in space, but who died in the Challenger explosion, was Christa _____
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  1. 1. the original prototype space shuttle that was only a glider used in test landings and named after the starship from Star Trek was the _____
  2. 3. the very first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971
  3. 4. the current space station, jointly built and operated by 16 countries is the ISS, or _____ Space Station
  4. 6. the second fully operational space shuttle that exploded in 1986 shortly after lift-off, killing its crew
  5. 7. NASA's 1-man spacecraft that first put Americans in space was Project _____
  6. 8. the Russians who went to space were called this instead of astronauts
  7. 9. the first fully operational space shuttle that flew 27 missions before exploding on re-entry in 2003
  8. 10. the space telescope put into orbit through the space shuttle program and named after the famous American astronaut
  9. 11. the first American in space who later played golf on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission was Alan _____
  10. 14. Russia's 2-3 person spacecraft that has been in use since 1967 and still takes people and supplies to the ISS
  11. 16. NASA's 2-man spacecraft used between 1964-66 was Project _____
  12. 18. the Russian space station whose name means "Peace"