Abeka 8th grade Science (Earth and Space) quiz 37

Robert Goddard

Father of Modern Rocketry

Wernher von Braun

German researcher who became the United States ' top rocket designer

John Glenn

first American to orbit the earth

Yuri Gagarin

first person to travel in space

Neil Armstrong

first human being to set foot on another world

Skylab

The United States ' first space station was

space shuttle

The first spacecraft designed to be reused was the

solid

The type of rockets that have been used for centuries to launch fireworks and small military rockets are liquid - fuel rockets .

Sputnik 1

The first artificial object to orbit the earth was Soyuz 1 .

Explorer 1 .

The United States ' first satellite was