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9 Cards in this Set
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Who was the first American in space?
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Alan Shepard
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Who was the first man in space?
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Yuri Gagarin
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What did the Gemini project do?
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The Gemini project used two-man space vehicles to test procedures that would be needed for safe lunar exploration.
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What is the name given to the process of joining two spacecraft in space?
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docking
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What was the name given to the module of the Apollo spacecraft that stayed in lunar orbit while the other module descended to the surface of the moon?
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the command module
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Who were the first two men to walk on the moon?
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin
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What were the Soviets doing while the U.S was concentrating on putting a man on the moon?
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The Soviets were concentrating on a space station.
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Which space shuttle was lost in an explosion of the boosters in the mid 1980s?
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The Challenger
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List some advantanges of the U.S. space program to everyday life in this country.
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Some possibilities include fire-retardant fabrics, wash-and wear clothing, computer technology.
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