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Astronauts & Space Travel
Quiz by Kristina Isidro
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A person who is trained to travel and work in space is called an astronaut.
Space is considered the area where airplanes fly, in the Troposphere.
The Karman Line, which is 62 miles above sea level, is where humans say “Space” begins.
Astronauts can live up to a year, or more, inspace.
Astronauts do not eat while they are in space
What do astronauts do in space?
The name “Astronaut” actually means “Star Warrior”
The first man in space was American.
The first American in space was Alan Shephard.
The youngest man to ever go into space was Gherman Stepanovich Titov at age 25.Â
John Glenn was the 1st American to orbit around the Earth, and he was also the oldest person to go into space.
The 1st woman to travel to space, and the only woman to go into space alone, was an American Astronaut.
Joseph Walker was the 1st civilian to go into space on an airplane.Â
The first human to go on a spacewalk was a Russian Cosmonaut by the name of Alexei Leonov.
Neil Armstrong was the 1st human to walk on the moon.
A mission is what we call an astronaut in space.
Astronauts can have more than just one mission when they go to space.Â
An example of a “mission” might be to fix a satellite or grow lettuce in space.
A Manned Spacecraft is a robotic spacecraft without humans on it.
An unmanned spacecraft is also called a probe
If a space mission includes humans, we can call it a crewed mission.
A Joint Mission is when an astronaut joins their craft to another craft in space.
The first mission to have a man walk on the Moon, was theApollo 11.
The first person to walk on the moon was a NASA astronaut named Ben Franklin.
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon by himself.Â
There were 20 missions to the moon.
The Apollo-Soyuz was the first International Space Station.
Space Shuttles were reusable.
