Name ______
When We Left Earth - Ordinary Supermen
1. NASA experimented with a rocket plane. What was it called?
a. X-1 c. X-15
b. X-8 d. X-22
2. Identify the program that was going to launch an American into orbit.
a. Project Mercury c. Project Pioneer
b. Project Apollo d. Project Voyager
3. NASA engineers had to invent or adapt any tool they used.
a. True b. False
4. NASA chose ______to be astronauts.
a. acrobats c. daredevils
b. military test pilots d. stunt flyers
5. How many astronauts were selected as the original group?
a. 7 c. 11
b. 9 d. 19
6. What percentage of rockets failed?
a. 10%-20% c. 30%-40%
b. 20%-30% d. 40%-50%
7. Doctors were concerned man could not survive…
a. a rocket launch. c. reentry.
b. in zero-g. d. riding in a centrifuge.
8. Before launching a man into space, NASA launched…
a. a dog, Huckleberry c. a cat, Sylvester.
b. a rabbit, Bugs. d. a chimpanzee, Ham.
9. Who was the first man in space?
a. Gherman Titov b. Neil Armstrong
b. Jim McDivitt d. Yuri Gagarin
10. Who was the first American in space?
a. Scott Carpenter c. Gus Grissom
b. John Glenn d. Alan Shepard
11. How long did America’s first flight into space last?
a. 20 minutes c. 90 minutes
b. 50 minutes d. 3 hours
12. What goal did President Kennedy set for the space program?
a. To land a man on Venus and return him safely to Earth.
b. To land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth.
c. To land a man on Mars and return him safely to Earth.
d. To land a man on an asteroid and return him safely to Earth.
13. What did Gus Grissom name his Mercury capsule?
a. Aurora 7 c. Friendship 7
b. Freedom 7 d. Liberty Bell 7
14. What rocket launched John Glenn into orbit?
a. Atlas c. Saturn V
b. Redstone d. Titan II
15. What did Mission Control think was wrong with Friendship 7?
a. It was leaking fuel. c. The heat shield had come loose.
, b. It was leaking oxygen. d. The hatch was not closed.
16. What did President Kenney call outer space?
a. The New Frontier c. The New Ocean
b. The Unexplored Frontier d. The Great Unknown
17. Stars twinkle in space.
a. True b. False
18. Scott Carpenter almost used up his capsule’s fuel.
a. True b. False
19. How far away from the landing site did Scott Carpenter land?
a. 2.5 miles c. 117 miles
b. 84 miles d. 250 miles
20. Gordo Cooper became the first American to sleep in space.
a. True b. False
21. What was the manned program that followed Mercury called?
a. Ranger c. Mariner
b. Gemini d. Viking
When We Left Earth - Ordinary Supermen
1. NASA experimented with a rocket plane. What was it called?
c. X-15
2. Identify the program that was going to launch an American into orbit.
a. Project Mercury
3. NASA engineers had to invent or adapt any tool they used.
a. True
4. NASA chose ______to be astronauts.
b. military test pilots
5. How many astronauts were selected as the original group?
a. 7
6. What percentage of rockets failed?
c. 30%-40%
7. Doctors were concerned man could not survive…
b. in zero-g.
8. Before launching a man into space, NASA launched…
d. a chimpanzee, Ham.
9. Who was the first man in space?
d. Yuri Gagarin
10. Who was the first American in space?
d. Alan Shepard
11. How long did America’s first flight into space last?
a. 20 minutes
12. What goal did President Kennedy set for the space program?
b. To land a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth.
13. What did Gus Grissom name his Mercury capsule?
d. Liberty Bell 7
14. What rocket launched John Glenn into orbit?
a. Atlas
15. What did Mission Control think was wrong with Friendship 7?
c. The heat shield had come loose
16. What did President Kenney call outer space?
c. The New Ocean
17. Stars twinkle in space.
b. False
18. Scott Carpenter almost used up his capsule’s fuel.
a. True
19. How far away from the landing site did Scott Carpenter land?
d. 250 miles
20. Gordo Cooper became the first American to sleep in space.
a. True
21. What was the manned program that followed Mercury called?
b. Gemini