Moon Landing

ARTICLES
• Space Exploration
• Space Race
• Apollo
• Astronaut

BIOGRAPHIES
• Neil Armstrong
• Buzz Aldrin
• Michael Collins

PICTURES
• Apollo spacecraft
• Apollo 11 after splashdown
• Earth seen from moon taken during Apollo 11 mission
• Buzz Aldrin on the moon
• Neil Armstrong on the moon

VIDEO
• Apollo 11 moon landing

PRIMARY SOURCE DOCUMENTS
• Telephone conversation with Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon
• Remarks to Apollo 11 astronauts following completion of lunar mission

SPECIAL REPORTS
• Neil Armstrong: First Man to Walk on the Moon

TIMELINES
• Advances in Space Exploration
• Milestones in Moon Study

WEBSITES
• Apollo

TEACHING WITH DOCUMENTS
• On Your Mark…Get Set…Go! — The Space Race

WEBQUESTS
• Moon Landing
• Space Exploration

QUESTIONS
1. What is microgravity? How does microgravity affect space travellers?
2. How does a rocket generate thrust?
3. What was the first international piloted space mission? When did it begin?
4. Who was the first person to set foot on the moon? When did this achievement occur?
5. What device allows astronauts to manoeuvre outside a spacecraft without a safety line?
6. What was the first space station to be resupplied and refuelled in orbit?
7. Why would a nuclear rocket be impractical as a booster?
8. Who was the first woman in space?
9. How did the "space race" begin?
10. How far above Earth does Earth's atmosphere end and space begin?