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History of Space Flight: Reaching for the Stars
TL788.5 H57 1994
1. Babylonian priests first recorded the positions of the stars _______ years ago.
2. The __________ are credited with developing the first rockets.
3. William ___________ developed more accurate rockets for warfare for the
British in the early 1800s.
4. Robert ____________ was the first to launch a liquid fuel rocket in 1926.
5. The Russian Konstantin ___________ is considered the father of astronautics.
6. Alan Shepard was the first American in space who also flew on Apollo ____.
7. Germany pursued the development of rockets as weapons before WW-II
because those were not prohibited in the Treaty of _________.
8. Wernher von Braun’s wheel-shaped space station concept was to rotate in
order to create artificial ____________.
9. Wernher von Braun’s Redstone missile could have launched the first American
satellite, but the assignment was given to the U.S. Navy to launch the
_______________.
10. NASA was created on October 1, 19____.
11. The first person launched into space was _______________ on April 12,
1961.
12. ____ Gemini flights were conducted in 1965 and 1966.
13. The two launch vehicles specifically for the Apollo program were the
___________ and the ___________.
14. The first Apollo manned lunar landing was Apollo ____ launched July 16,
19____.
15. The astronauts on Apollo 12 visited the Surveyor ____ spacecraft on the
Moon’s surface.
16. Apollo ____ was the first to use the lunar rover.
17. The last Apollo mission was Apollo ____ launched in 1972.
18. The first Space Shuttle launched was Columbia in April of 19___.
19. The U.S. _______ spacecraft was launched to Venus to map the surface
features.