The Space Shuttle

A space shuttle only carries astronauts into space.

• True

• False

Booster rockets help space shuttles get off the ground and overcome Earth's gravity to get into space.

• True

• False

The last space shuttle mission took place in July 2013.

• True

• False

How is a space shuttle different from the Apollo 11 spacecraft?

What are the other ways NASA is planning to explore space?

Read the mixed-up sentences from a paragraph below. Drag them around to put them in the correct order.

• There is no land on Jupiter.

• There are also other gases on Jupiter, and all of them are blowing and swirling around.

• The planet is a big ball of swirling gases.

• Jupiter is a planet, but it is a very different kind of planet from Earth.

• The two main gases are hydrogen and helium.

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