Space Flight 4.4

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Which detail from “Go, John Glenn!” best explains how long it takes Friendship 7 to completely circle the earth?

• “For almost four hours he waited, on his back, his feet pushed up in front of him.”

• “With each hour-and-a-half orbit of Earth, Glenn watched the sun rise and set.”

• “For twenty minutes, the capsule bucked and lunged while the temperature around it climbed.”

• “Five hours and 81,000 miles after he had taken off, John Glenn splashed down to a welcome….

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Read the excerpt from “Go, John Glenn!”

He thought of astronaut Alan Shepard, strapped into his capsule, waiting for launch a year earlier. “Why don’t you fix your little problem … and light this candle?” Shepard had asked Mission Control. Glenn smiled at the memory.

Which response best describes the excerpt?

• A writer provides a secondhand account of the Friendship 7 mission.

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    It is a firsthand description of Glenn’s first trip into space.

• It is a secondhand account of Shepard's words to Mission Control as he waited to launch.

• Shepard provides a firsthand account of the problems that had to be addressed before take-off.

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Part A

What inference can be made about Glenn based on the information in “Go, John Glenn!”?

• Glenn is patient and prepared.

• He is worried he will fail his mission.

• Glenn is curious and alarmed.

• He is pretending to be brave in flight.

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Part B

Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

"Glenn was patient and prepared."

• “He quietly reviewed his checklist, and waited.”

• “This was not the part that made a person want to be an astronaut.”

• “‘What is the reason for this? Do you have any reason? Over.’”

• “‘Boy, that was a real fireball!’”

  “‘Boy, that was a real fireball!’”

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Which detail from “John Glenn and Friendship 7” best supports the inference that the Project Mercury team was prepared to handle problems that happened in flight?

• "‘The malfunction just forced me to prove very rapidly what had been planned over a longer period of time.’"

• “It seemed possible that Glenn and the spacecraft would burn up on reentry.”

• “‘It made for a very spectacular reentry from where I was sitting,’ he said.”

• “When the automatic system went out at the end of the first orbit it became a matter of life and death.”

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What is a main idea of “Two Views of Project Mercury”?

• Many people provide their time and hard work to achieve the goals of Project Mercury.

• The astronaut who flies Friendship 7 is trained as a pilot and served in two wars.

• Because Project Mercury scientists spend hours away from home, their families feel upset.

• As it prepares to launch, Friendship 7 produces so much smoke it is nearly impossible to see it.

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Which response best describes “Go, John Glenn!”?

• The article is a secondhand account of the Friendship 7 mission.

• It is a firsthand description of Glenn’s first trip into space.

• The article is a firsthand account from a member of Mission Control.

• Alan Shepard provides a secondhand account of Glenn’s first space trip.

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In the first part of “Two Views of Project Mercury,” a young girl describes how her father, a scientist working for NASA, feels about Project Mercury.

How is the second account different from the first?

• Glenn explains his viewpoint about being chosen as the Project Mercury pilot.

• It gives specific details about the pilots who are chosen for the Project Mercury team.

• It lists the main goals of Project Mercury and praises the people who work on the project.

• Scientists and engineers describe the problems that arise while working on Project Mercury.

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