astronauts
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:31 pm2. Write a quiz (Unit 2)
1. What does the word astronaut mean?
2. How long does it take to put on a space suit?
3. How much do astronauts earn?
4. What can you see in space?
5. How old do astronauts need to be?
6. How do astronauts sleep in space?
1. A person trained to pilot, navigate, or otherwise participate as a crew member of a spacecraft.
2. Approximately one hour.
3. Currently, a GS-12 starts at $65,140 per year and a GS-13 can earn up to $100,701 per year.
4. Observation of planets will keep you very busy. You can see Jupiter with its great red spot change hourly, study the cloud bands and watch its moons shuttle back and forth. Study Saturn and its splendid ring structure, watch Venus and Mercury as they go through their moon-like phases. Observe Mars and see its polar cap changes or watch the dust storms and deserts bloom with life. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto can be seen easily with 8" or larger telescopes.
5. The age for being an astronaut is between 25 and 40 years.
6. Since there's no gravity in space, astronauts can sleep vertically (standing up) as well as horizontally. In the space shuttle, astronauts often sleep in their seats or in sleeping bags attached to the wall. On the International Space Station, the astronauts sleep in a Habitation Module with sleeping bags attached to walls as well. All an astronaut really needs to sleep in space is to be tethered to something so he can't drift around.
web pages: thefreeddictionary.com, spacekids.com, spaceref.com,nasa.gov, distance-education.org
1. What does the word astronaut mean?
2. How long does it take to put on a space suit?
3. How much do astronauts earn?
4. What can you see in space?
5. How old do astronauts need to be?
6. How do astronauts sleep in space?
1. A person trained to pilot, navigate, or otherwise participate as a crew member of a spacecraft.
2. Approximately one hour.
3. Currently, a GS-12 starts at $65,140 per year and a GS-13 can earn up to $100,701 per year.
4. Observation of planets will keep you very busy. You can see Jupiter with its great red spot change hourly, study the cloud bands and watch its moons shuttle back and forth. Study Saturn and its splendid ring structure, watch Venus and Mercury as they go through their moon-like phases. Observe Mars and see its polar cap changes or watch the dust storms and deserts bloom with life. Uranus, Neptune and Pluto can be seen easily with 8" or larger telescopes.
5. The age for being an astronaut is between 25 and 40 years.
6. Since there's no gravity in space, astronauts can sleep vertically (standing up) as well as horizontally. In the space shuttle, astronauts often sleep in their seats or in sleeping bags attached to the wall. On the International Space Station, the astronauts sleep in a Habitation Module with sleeping bags attached to walls as well. All an astronaut really needs to sleep in space is to be tethered to something so he can't drift around.
web pages: thefreeddictionary.com, spacekids.com, spaceref.com,nasa.gov, distance-education.org