Anniversary of the FIRST Moon walk(1969)

  

MAN first walked on the Moon on July 20th, 1969.

To date 12 people have walked on the moon, beginning with Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.

In the next couple of years, astronauts will again return to the moon for the first time  since 1972. A WOMAN will be making a moon walk on the upcoming Artemis Mission!

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1. Write THREE facts you know about space.

2. What are three character traits you would give an astronaut and why?

3. What would be your biggest fear as an astronaut?

4. If you could bring ONE personal item with you on a space mission what would it be and why?

5. Do you think there may be life on other planets?

6. Write TWO questions you’d ask an astronaut.

7. Illustrate one of the Did You Know? factoids.

Did You Know?

1. Dennis Tito, became the first  space tourist in 2001.He paid $20 million to spend 8 days at the International Space Station.

2. Snoopy, the Peanut character, is the safety mascot of NASA astronauts

3. Wan-Hu, a Chinese man that lived around 1500 AD, may have been the first in space. 47 Rockets were attached to a chair with two large kites. He was never seen again!• The word astronaut is Latin for “star sailor.

4. The first person to walk in space was Russian, Alexei Leonov(1965).

5. The first American to walk in space was Ed White(1965)

6. President Nixon called Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin while they were taking photographs of the flag on the moon. Nixon said of the telephone call that it “was the most historic phone call ever made from the White House”. 1969

7. Scientists hope that there will be a manned mission to MARS by 2025.

8. Venus is the hottest planet. Although Mars is closest to the sun, its atmosphere can’t regulate temperatures. Venus is about 450 degrees C. on its surface.

9. Pluto was demoted from being a planet(2006). It is called a dwarf planet. Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and Eris are the four other recognized dwarf planets

10. The first man-made object in space was launched by the Russians in 1957. It was called Sputnik. It was the beginning of the “Space Race” between Russia and the USA.

11. Famous Halley’s Comet returns to our solar system every 76 years. It will be visible in 2061.

12. A Latin word, “alien” means “stranger” or “foreign”.

13. The planet Saturn has officially 53 moons. Another 9 haven’t been confirmed as moons.

14. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.

15. About 4.24 light years away, the sun is the closest star to the Earth.

16.Stars don’t really “twinkle”. The light of stars is distorted by the Earth’s atmosphere making the appearance of twinkling.

17. A group of solar systems is called a galaxy. We live in the Milky Way Galaxy.

18. It is estimated that there are 500,000 pieces of junk floating around in space! 

19. The first person to believe that the Earth revolved around the Sun was Nicolaus Copernicus. People at the time believed the EARTH was the center of the universe and the sun revolved around the Earth.

20. The ONLY person to walk in Space AND travel down into the deepest trench on Earth, the Mariana Trench, is Dr. Kathy Sullivan!(2020)

Resources of Possible Interest:

• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Moon-Landing-Man-Walks-on-the-Moon-A-Readers-Theater-Script-4538523 Reader’s Theater Script on the Moon Landing of 1969.
• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Space-The-Final-FrontierWebquestExtension-ActivitiesDistance-Learning-1526888?st=2749ea38757518968dd7371869dceb94 Space, The Final Frontier(Webquest on the History of Space Exploration): 
• https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/John-Glenn-Astronaut-A-Webquest-2914006 Webquest on John Glenn
• The movie Hidden Figures highlights the role of NASA's "computers" such as Katherine Johnson and their contributions. Part of my Ms. Bie Ografee Talk Show Series of Reader's Theater Scripts, there are comprehension questions, a Did You Know? section,a Teacher page with extensions/links and key. A great STEM biography! https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Katherine-Johnson-ScientistThe-Computer-that-Wore-SkirtsPlay-2961216   Learn about Katherine Johnson, a physicist, space scientist and mathematician, who played a very important role with NASA’s early space missions.

Check out this resource: https://www.nasa.gov/stem/forstudents

Illustrations from WPClipart and NASA