The Rocket Project

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The Rocket Project
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    1. Find the name of the first space mission
to the moon.

• The Apollo 11 Mission
• Payload CSM-107 (Columbia) and LM-5 (Eagle)
• http//www.nasm.si.edu/apollo/AS11/a11craft.
  htm
• Crew Neil A. Armstrong, Commander Edwin Buzz
  Aldrin Jr., Lunar Module Pilot Michael Collins,
  Command Module Pilot
• July 16, 1969 093200 am EDT

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2. Find the name of the first man-made object to
orbit the Earth, and when was it launched?

• The Sputnik
• The Russians were the first to launch an
  artificial satellite into space, in 1957.
• Size of basketball, 183 lbs, and took 98 min. to
  orbit the Earth.

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3. Find what kind of rocket Robert Goddard
pioneered.

• The first liquid fueled rocket.
• He thought stable flight could be obtained by
  mounting the rocket ahead of the fuel tank

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What made the Apollo 13 flight so famous?

• They called it a successful failure.
• Oxygen tanks exploded and caused the damage.
• Oxygen was limited, forcing the crew to return,
  never landing on the moon.

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5. What is the only current US manned space
vehicle?

• The Space Shuttle Orbiters
• Columbia
• Challenger
• Endeavor
• Enterprise
• Atlantis
• Discovery

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6. Who was Werner Von Braun?

• Defected from Germany after WWII.
• Helped to establish US Space program and history
  of rocketry.
• http//www.uh.edu/engines/epi764.htm

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• Visit the website Rockets by family and sketch
  three rockets.