Yuri Gagarin Alan Shepard Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin

Space explorers – create your own fact cards Name: ...... Date: ......

Here are some famous astronauts. Use the Internet or reference books to find out more about them and complete each fact file.

Yuri Gagarin Alan Shepard The first person ever in space The first American in space

Place and date of birth: ...... Place and date of birth: ...... Name and date of first space mission: Name and date of first space mission: ...... Name of space vehicle on first mission: Name of second space mission: ...... Date of death: ...... Date of retirement from NASA: ......

Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin The first man on the Moon The second man on the Moon

Place and date of birth: ...... Place and date of birth: ...... Name and date of first space mission: ...... Name and date of first space mission: ...... What did he famously say when he stepped on to ...... the Moon? ...... Name of one other space mission: ...... What job did he do before he became an Name one other mission he completed: ...... astronaut? ......

Valentina Tereshkova Christa McAuliffe The first ever woman in space Chosen to be the first teacher in space

Place and date of birth: ...... Place and date of birth: ...... Name and date of space mission: ...... Name and date of first space mission: ...... What happened on this mission? ...... What job did she do before she became an ...... astronaut? ...... How many times did she orbit Earth? ...... Date of death: ......

Jim Lovell Gus Grissom Commander of Apollo 13 Died in America’s first space tragedy

Place and date of birth: ...... Place and date of birth: ...... Name and date of first space mission: ...... Name and date of first space mission: ...... What happened on his second mission, Apollo 13? What happened aboard Apollo 1? ...... Date of retirement from NASA: ...... Date of death: ......

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