1. 50 Years of Human Space Travel!
World Space Week ’11 Day 3
50 Years of Human
Space Travel!

2. Contest Guidelines
There will be 16 questions total over four days. Top winners will be announced and a Grand Prize Drawing for all who get 100% correct.
Copy the questions in a notebook and keep track of your answers.
Pick up an answer sheet during lunch or from your homeroom teacher.
On Monday, turn in your answers by lunch time in the “Space Week Box”.
Don’t forget to include your name and homeroom teacher! Good LUCK!!

3. Trivia Question #9
Who was the teacher that died on the mission that the Challenger exploded?

4. Trivia Question #10
Who was the first American woman in space?

5. Trivia Question #11
How many planets orbit our Sun?

6. What country performed their first space walk in 2008?
Trivia Question #12
What country performed their first space walk in 2008?

7. Space Week Fun Facts Day 3
Did you know that…
Astronomers estimate that our Sun will turn into a red giant star in about 4 billion years. When this happens, life on Earth will come to an end.
A neutron star is really the remains of a supernova explosion. It is so dense that a teaspoon full of neutron star matter would weigh ten billion pounds on Earth.