Moon Landing

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  1. Mass concentrations beneath the moon's surface that are dangerous to landing missions are called ________.
  2. The Americans prepared a condolence ______ for the President to give if the first astronauts remained stranded on the moon.
  3. Before moon missions, the Space Age was started with the launch of _______ 1.
  4. On the moon, one can witness an _________ similar to a sunrise on Earth.
  5. Right now, spacecraft headed to the moon are propelled by a ______.
  6. The Soviet series of space missions were called the ____ missions.
  7. When a spacecraft crashes onto the moon it is said to have made a ____ landing.
  8. The _______ V was crashed into the moon in an attempt to measure its internal structure.
  9. A proper moon landing is referred to as a ____ landing because the craft is not destroyed on impact.
  10. In 1999 NASA intentionally crash landed the Lunar Prospector into the Shoemaker ______.
  11. The struggle going on at the political and military level while the first moon landings were happening was called the ____ ___. (2 words)
  12. The Soviets were the first to retrieve ____ from the moon.
  13. The ashes of pioneering lunar scientist ______ Shoemaker were delivered to the moon in a vial.
  14. The America space agency that ran the lunar missions for the United States is called ____.
  15. The moon landing boasted history's largest live __________ audience at the time.

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  1. The first things sent back from early lunar missions were ___________.
  2. The ______ _____ landed the first human created object on the moon. (2 words)
  3. The competition between the US and the USSR to be the first nation to land a man on the moon was called the _____ ____. (2 words)
  4. During a moon landing, a spacecraft lands on the _______ of the moon.
  5. To reach the moon, a spacecraft must break free of the _______ ____ of Earth. (2 words)
  6. Japan, Europe, China and _____ have all landed craft on the moon.
  7. The first man landed on the moon on ____ 20, 1969.
  8. Gene ______ is the last person to have walked on the moon.
  9. US President _____ was in power when the first manned flight landed on the moon.
  10. The vehicle driven on the moon was called a lunar _____.
  11. In all, a total of ______ people have walked on the face of the moon.
  12. On _________ 13, 1959 the first human made object struck the face of the moon.
  13. The Russian language equivalent of an astronaut is a _________.
  14. The first manned mission to land on the moon was the ______ 11.
  15. To break free of the moon or Earth, a craft much reach ______ velocity.


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