Watch the
video about
astronaut
training
1. Take two oxygen cylinders from five oxygen cylinders. How many do you have?
2. If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing a candle, a
newspaper, a gas light and some fire wood... Which would you light first?
3. NASA sent a team of 17 astronauts to Mars. All but 9 died. How many astronauts
did NASA have left?
4. A shuttle mission flies from Florida to Houston. It crashes in Louisiana. Where
would the survivors be buried?
5. If a redhouse is made of red bricks and a whitehouse is made of white wood, what
is a greenhouse made of?
6 If you fly a NASA plane with 43 people on board from Boston to Washington and
drop off 3 people at each of 6 stops and pick up 4 people at half the stops. When
you arrive at Washington 10 hours later... What is the pilot’s name?
7. Write down this number accurately: 15 thousand, 15 hundred and 15.
8. What do you sit on, sleep on and brush your teeth with?
9. John is a popular boys’ name in the United Kingdom and many Spanish boys are
called Jose. What is a boy called in France.
10. To enter the buoyancy tank at the NASA training facility, scuba divers sit on the
edge and fall in backwards. Why is this?
11. You have two coins in your pocket that totals 101p. One of them is not a penny.
What are the coins?
12. NASA have to renumber the 100 rooms at the Kennedy Space Centre. Joe has to go
and buy the plastic numbers to stick on the doors. How many number 9’s does he
need to buy?
We will be working to
identify your reaction
times.
It is important for
astronauts to have quick
reaction times.
Are you the fastest?
Follow the instructions.
You will need to answer
the questions as you
watch the video on the
Hubble missions.