News Puzzle
FirstNews
Issue 485
2nd – 8th October 2015
SCIENCE : Muddled meanings & missing words
Beep, beep, beep … 58 years ago on October 4th 1957, the first manmade satellite was launched into space.
Find out more by matching the key words from this news story to their definitions and then writing them back in
to the article.
astonished
transmitted
copies (of Sputnik 1)
signal
proud
a person, e.g. Sergei Korolev, who plans the look or workings of something before
it is made, with drawings or plans
satellite
replicas
designer
surprised
historic
sent (a signal)
buildings where you can go and see collections of things, e.g. a replica of Sputnik 1!
important in history
the circular journey Sputnik 1 made (around the Earth)
message, communication
museums
an object, e.g. a spacecraft, which orbits round the earth or another planet, in
order to collect information or for communication (Sputnik 1 is one of these)
orbit
pleased
ON 4 October 1957, the
Soviet Union
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ the
world when Sputnik 1, the
world’s first man-made
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , was
launched into space and
___________ a
_ _ _ _ _ _ from _ _ _ _ _ .
This _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ flight
shocked the United States, who
expected to be the first into orbit
This report is from our
friends at the Science
Museum, part of the
Science Museum Group.
Science Museum
Beep
beep beep
and left the Soviet people happy and
immensely _ _ _ _ _ .
Sergei Korolev, the satellite’s
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ , insisted on
Sputnik’s shiny appearance, as he
believed _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ would
be displayed in _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ,
and he was right! You can see two
Sputnik satellites hanging overhead
in the Cosmonauts exhibition at the
Science Museum. These were used by
designers and engineers to prepare
for the 1957 mission. Inside you can
see the bulky battery and a small
radio transmitter and cooling fan.
Cosmonauts: Birth of the Space Age
is open until 13 March 2016 at the
Science Museum. Tickets are available
in the Museum or online from
sciencemuseum.org.uk/cosmonauts.
Two models of Sputnik 1
on display at the
Cosmonauts exhibition