WEB QUEST
(Answers for Grades 5 and 6)
ASSIGNMENT:
PART 1: THE DAWN OF THE SPACE
AGE
1.
A step-rocket that separated into two
parts after being launched
2.
North Atlantic Treaty
3.
Representatives of Belgium, Canada,
Denmark, France, Great Britain, Italy,
Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the
United States
4. NATO--NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
5.
To provide a common defense against the
threat of Soviet invasion
6.
The transistorized descendents of this
machine would in later years guide spacecraft to the moon, the planets, and the
vast emptiness of space beyond our solar system.
7. The Soviet Union launched the first man-made
Earth satellite, Sputnik I. As a result, politicians, scientists, and educators
called for a major U.S. initiative to regain superiority in missile development
and space technology.
8.
The invention of the first digital
computer, UNIVAC
9.
The Space Race began.
10.
Three months and twenty-seven days
11.
Explorer I
12. The Soviet Union-----Yuri Gargarin
13.
Lt. Colonel John Glenn
14.
Mercury Capsule Friendship 7
15. How much time passed between when the first Russian and the first American
orbited Earth? (Calculate this yourself.)
16.
The Soviet Union made the each step first
and the United States followed soon afterwards. This shows that the United States
was very competitive with the Soviet Union. It also shows that the United
States was already planning each step even though the Russians did each step first.
They would never have been able to follow so closely to the Russians if they
weren’t already working on it.
17.
Project Mercury
18.
It accomplished six successful manned
flights.
19.
Its purpose was to extend the existing
manned space flight program by developing a two-manned spacecraft.
20.
Its purpose was exploration of the moon
and the operation of Skylab--the first American space station.
21.
The event that ended the Space Race was
when the United States put a man on the moon before the Russians did.
22.
The Lunar Module Eagle landed on the Moon
in the Sea of Tranquility.
PART 2: BEYOND THE MOON
1.
`Mariner 2 was the first U.S. spacecraft
to fly past Venus and enter a solar orbit.
2.
December 14, 1962
3.
The first U.S. spacecraft to fly by Mars
was the Mariner 4. It reached Mars on July 14, 1965.
4.
We learned that Mars has a thin
atmosphere composed of CO2
in the range of 5-10 mbar and has a small intrinsic magnetic field.
5.
The recorded surface temperatures of
Mercury were 1870
C on its day
side and -1830C on its night side. A weak magnetic
field and no atmosphere were detected.
6.
Pioneer 10, Pioneer 11, Voyager, Voyager
2, Ulysses, and Galileo
7.
It sent information concerning the
atmosphere and surface of Saturn’s moon, Titan.
8.
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus on January 24,
1986 ad Neptune on August 24, 1989.
9.
We are presently using the Space Shuttle
and the International Space Station to do work in space.
10.
The X-33 and the X-34 have been designed
to eventually replace the space shuttles.
11.
Student Opinion. Possible answers
include: missions to Mars, space travel by people other than astronauts
12.
Answers may vary. A possible answer is:
the Space Race spurred both countries to work harder to invent new technology
so they could be better than the other country. Without this competitive drive,
it would have been longer before new technology was invented and the
exploration of space would not have reached the levels it did as quickly.
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