1) What was interesting about Tsilokovsky’s work?
a. He never put his theories into practice.
b. He developed a new type of space station.
c. He developed a rocket powered by nuclear fuel.

2) Robert Goddard was the first man to prove that rockets worked in
a. A mall
b. Water
c. A vacuum

3) Who was the first man to walk on the Moon?
a. John Glenn
b. Neil Armstrong
c. Alan Shepard

4) What was the name of John Glenn’s first spacecraft?
a. Freedom 7
b. Faith 7
c. Friendship 7

5) How long was Alan Shepard’s first space mission?
a. 12 days
b. 15 minutes
c. 3 hours

6) Which one of these is not one of Newton’s Laws of Motion?
a. An object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon.
b. Some objects will never move.
c. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

7). Where did Copernicus believe the Sun was located?
a. Beyond Saturn
b. Orbiting the Earth
c. In the center of the solar system.

8) Why is Kepler’s work important?
a. He discovered three laws regarding orbiting bodies.
b. He was the first man to discover the telescope.
c. He started the U.S. space program.

9) What was Wernher von Braun’s first long range rocket?
a. Saturn V
b. V-2
c. Titan

10) What did Kepler call the moons of Jupiter?
a. The Galileo Belt
b. Orbitals
c. Satellites

11) For what is Edmond Halley known?
a. His studies of comets
b. His developments in rocketry
c. His discovery of Pluto

12) What is Tsilokovsky known as?
a. First Cosmonaut
b. Mir Design Manager
c. Father of Russian space science

13) What did Galileo discover when he observed Jupiter through a telescope?
a. Stripes on the surface
b. Four moons
c. An approaching comet

14) Which one of these is not one of Galileo’s laws?
a. The Law of the Pendalum
b. The Law of Relativity
c. The Law of Falling Objects

15) Where was Wernher von Braun born?
a. Russia
b. United States
c. Germany


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