Unit 9 orange space passage

This passage is a science article that gives information. That means iit is ​ (a)  

• nonfiction.
• fiction.  

In the 1600's, Galileo studied ______.

• cats

• Earth

• space

Hundreds of years later, we discovered our ​ (a)   , where all the planets

• solar system.
• moon
• stars

_____ was the first country to launch a satelite in space.

• Russia

• America

• Canada

America sent that first rocket to the ______.

• Mars

• moon

• Venus

Scientists knew a rocket needed a lot of ​ (a)   to make it to the moon.

• fuel
• astronauts
• planets

​ (a)   Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first people to walk on the moon.

• Astrounauts
• planets 
• sun

Astrounauts from many countries live and work on the

• moon

• Mars

• International Space Station

match the word with the definition

• astronaut

• the empty area outside of Earth

• rocket

• the sun and planets that orbit the sun

• solar system

• vehicle that can travel in space

• space

• The natural stelite that orbits the earth

• moon

• a person who travles into space

Would you ever travel into space to be an astronaut? Why or why not?