The Curators Coloring and Activity Book

T h e M oon
M an left th e p lan et E arth in 1 96 9 to fly to its nearest neig h b or, th e M o o n. T h e U nited S tates m ad e six m an n ed lan d in gs o n th e M o o n du ring th e A po llo p rog ram . A p o llo flig h ts p ro ved th at m an cou ld leave his earth ly ho m e w ith its frien dly an d p ro tectiv e atm osp here to travel o ut to w ard th e stars an d ex plore o th er p arts o f the so lar sy stem .

W h en th e astro n au ts land ed o n th e M o o n, th ey w ere to o bserv e, p h o to g raph , set-up eq u ip m en t an d co llect sam p les.

D urin g th e six A p ollo lan d in gs, a to tal o f 8 4 2 p ou n d s of M oo n ro ck s w ere co llected and retu rn ed to E arth . S o m e o f the ro ck sam ples are being stu d ied b y scien tists tod ay to u n lo ck so m e o f the M o o n s secrets.

Moon Find-A-Word
S U N H O Q R A B T I R S O T Q E J B T C E R T I L K L P L O I P L L T S E E A A S L T T O A X M A L M B

A G

D O O O G T P N L A A R R E

H K N

L M A

U N A

A N

Mare Basalt Moon Orbit Earth Sun Age

Sea Rock Lunar Solar Satellite Planet

A scientist examining moon rock under a microscope.

Moon Crossword
1 2 3 4

Storms Moon
6

Snoopy Earth Apollo Three

9 10 11

Young Lunar Astronaut

12

Reentry Orbit Mattingly Armstrong Tranquility Rover

13

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ACROSS 1. Space traveler. ________________ 5. Site of lunar landing on Apollo 12 - Ocean of ____________________. 7. Returning into the Earths atmosphere. __________________ 10. Site of lunar landing on Apollo 11 - Sea of __________________. 13. The car driven on the Moon was called the lunar __________________. 14. Name given to the lunar module on Apollo 10. __________________ DOWN 1. The first man to walk on the Moon. ____________________ 2. Path an object takes as it revolves around another; such as the Moon around the Earth. ___________________ 3. Name of the space program designed to put mankind on the Moon. ______________ 4. Number of astronauts that could travel in an Apollo capsule. __________________ 6. Astronaut on Apollo 16. __________________ 8. Planet on which we live. _______________________ 9. The part of the spacecraft that lands on the Moon is the __________________ module. 10. Astronaut on both Apollo 10 and 16. ___________________ 12. The Apollo program was designed to put humans on the _______________.

Apollo Crossword Puzzle

1

Earths Moons Basalt Shock Rocks Water Nine

2 3

5 6

7 8 9

Seas Rust Sol

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Age NE East

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ACROSS 3. 4. 6. 8. 10. 13. The Moons __________________ is at least 4.6 billion years. There are 32 _______________________ in our solar system. The Moon orbits the Earth from west to _________________________. The Moon is the ______________________ natural satellite. Some lunar rocks will _____________________ when exposed to water. Rocks on the Moon undergo great _____________________when hit by meteorites.

DOWN 1. There are __________________ planets in our solar system. 2. _________________ is a lunar volcanic rock. 5. The abbreviation for north east is ____________________. 7. There is no ____________________ on the Moon. 9. The Latin name for the sun is ____________________.

A scientist looking at cosmic dust.

A scientist examining a meteorite.

Meteorites are collected in Antarctica.

Someday we hope to explore the moons of other planets.

Apollo Flight Log

Mission
Apollo 1

Dates
Jan. 27, 1967

Crew
Virgil I. Grissom Edward H. White, II Roger Chaffee

Time in Space

Remarks
Accidental fire during ground test took the astronauts lives

Apollo 7

Oct. 11-22, 1968 Recovery Ship - Essex

Walter M. Schirra Donn Eisele Walter Cunningham

260:8:45

163 revolutions

Apollo 8

Dec. 21-27, 1968 Recovery Ship Yorktown

Frank Borman James A. Lovell, Jr. William Anders James A. McDivitt David R. Scott Russell L. Schweickart Thomas P. Stafford John W. Young Eugene A. Cernan Neil A. Armstrong Michael Collins Edwin E. Aldrin

147:00:11

10 revolutions of the Moon

Apollo 9 (Gumdrop & Spider)

Mar. 3-13, 1969 Recovery Ship Guadalcanal

241:00:53

151 revolutions of the Earth

Apollo 10 (Charlie Brown & Snoopy) Apollo 11 (Columbia, Eagle, Tranquillity Base) Apollo 12 (Yankee Clipper & Intrepid) Apollo 13 (Odyssey & Aquarius) Apollo 14 (Kitty Hawk & Antares) Apollo 15 (Endeavor & Falcon)

May 18-26, 1969 Recovery Ship Princeton July 16-24, 1969 Recovery Ship - Hornet

192:03:23

31 revolutions of the Moon

195:18:35

First lunar landing; Sea of Tranquillity; 1 EVA 2 hrs. 31 min., 44 lbs. lunar material

Nov. 14-24, 1969 Recovery Ship - Hornet

Charles Conrad, Jr. Richard F. Gordon, Jr. Alan L. Bean

244:36:25

Second lunar landing; Ocean of Storms; 2 EVAs total 7 hrs. 39 min., 75 lbs. lunar material

April 11-17, 1970 Recovery Ship - Iwo Jima Jan. 31 - Feb. 9, 1971 Recovery Ship - New Orleans July 26 - Aug. 7, 1971 Recovery Ship Okinawa

James A. Lovell, Jr. Fred W. Haise, Jr. John L. Swigert, Jr. Alan B. Shepard Stuart A. Roosa Edgar D. Mitchell David R. Scott James B. Irwin Alfred M. Worden, Jr.

142:54:41

Planned lunar landing aborted after oxygen tank rupture

216:42:01

Third lunar landing; Fra Mauro; 2 EVAs total 9 hrs. 25 min., returned 98 lbs. lunar material

295:12

Fourth lunar landing; Hadley Apennine; 3 surface EVAs, totaling 18 hrs. 36 min., returned 173 lbs. samples

Apollo 16 (Casper & Orion)

April 16-27, 1972 Recovery Ship Ticonderoga

John W. Young Thomas K. Mattingly Charles M. Duke, Jr.

265:51:06

Fifth lunar landing; Descartes highlands; 3 surface EVAs totaling 20 hrs. 14 min., returned 210 lbs. samples

Apollo 17 (America & Challenger)

Dec. 17-19, 1973 Recovery Ship Ticonderoga

Eugene A. Cernan Ronald E. Evans Harrison H. Schmitt

301:51:59

Sixth lunar landing; TaurusLittrow; 3 surface EVAs totaling 22 hrs. 4 min., returned 243 lbs. samples

Apollo Questions
Use the Apollo Flight Log to help find the answers to these questions. 1. Which astronauts were in space on Christmas? ____________________, ___________________ and _____________________. 2. How many more pounds of lunar material were returned on Apollo 15 than Apollo 14? ________________________ 3. How many pounds of lunar material were returned from Apollo 12 and 14 together? ___________________ 4. Which single mission returned that exact amount of lunar material? ______________ 5. Which astronauts flew on more than one Apollo mission? ___________________, ________________________ and ______________________. 6. How much time was spent on EVAs on Apollo 16 and 17 together? ______________________ 7. Which recovery ships were used for more than one Apollo mission? ________________ and _________________ 8. In which year were the most Apollo missions launched? ___________________ 9. What was the total amount of lunar material returned from the Apollo missions? _________________________ 10. Which astronauts were killed in an accidental fire? __________________, ____________________ and _______________________. 11. What space ship was nicknamed Charlie Brown and Snoopy? _____________________ 12. How many astronauts have orbited the moon? ___________________________ 13. Why did the Apollo 13 astronauts not walk on the moon? ______________________ ___________________________________________________

Find-A-Word Puzzle
Find the following hidden words. They may be horizontal, vertical or diagonal, forward or reverse. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. Achrondrite Asteroid Arizona Carbonaceous Chondrite Chondrule Comet Crater Crust Fireball Iron Meteor Meteorite Meteoriod Nickel Oriented Pallasite Stony Widmanstatten A H W I D M A N S T A T T E N O L R S C J C H V U T E N L B C H A N Y T O O R Y A C H W C R O L E K C I N R M A R U B T E T I R D N O H C A E A R O C P S C A B N E A K B A F I R E B A L L C T E K U J M T R E A T R S U O E C A N O B R A C M I I K O N R T R A A C H S N M O C E J O E R W E A O N E R E R O T G E E H I I O L O I A N N O T I S R N E H T T O L B R S E N Y L N Z A Z O I D R R L N N E E E I T F R P O A R O J T R O A M E D E T M E E I U O R N C N R M U L I R A N R S I E N M R G D I R D A M I L D O J Z I T S O M R E N L Y A O E A B E C B A E T E A T Z A D W I N D A E R E E N O R T E O L E I K O R E R O E T E M R E T H R I T C L O T A L H N T H M I H E T M H E R E S A R E I F D I O R O E T E M O O U D S Y P S