Curator Coloring Book
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
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A scientist examining moon rock under a microscope.
Moon Crossword 1
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Storms Moon 6
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Snoopy Earth
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Apollo Three 9
Young
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Lunar Astronaut 12
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Reentry Orbit Mattingly Armstrong Tranquility Rover
ACROSS 1. Space traveler. ________________ 5. Site of lunar landing on Apollo 12 - Ocean of ____________________. 7. Returning into the Earth’s 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
Earth’s Moons
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Shock
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Rocks
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Water
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Nine
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Seas Rust Sol
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Age NE East
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ACROSS 3. 4. 6. 8. 10. 13.
The Moon’s __________________ 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
Dates
Crew
Time in Space
Remarks
Apollo 1
Jan. 27, 1967
Virgil I. Grissom
Accidental fire during ground
Edward H. White, II
test took the astronauts’ lives
Roger Chaffee Apollo 7
Oct. 11-22, 1968
Walter M. Schirra
Recovery Ship - Essex
Donn Eisele
260:8:45
163 revolutions
147:00:11
10 revolutions of the Moon
241:00:53
151 revolutions of the Earth
192:03:23
31 revolutions of the Moon
Walter Cunningham Apollo 8
Dec. 21-27, 1968
Frank Borman
Recovery Ship -
James A. Lovell, Jr.
Yorktown
William Anders
Apollo 9
Mar. 3-13, 1969
James A. McDivitt
(Gumdrop & Spider)
Recovery Ship -
David R. Scott
Guadalcanal
Russell L. Schweickart
Apollo 10
May 18-26, 1969
Thomas P. Stafford
(Charlie Brown &
Recovery Ship -
John W. Young
Snoopy)
Princeton
Eugene A. Cernan
Apollo 11
July 16-24, 1969
Neil A. Armstrong
(Columbia, Eagle,
Recovery Ship - Hornet
Michael Collins
Tranquillity; 1 EVA 2 hrs. 31 min.,
Edwin E. Aldrin
44 lbs. lunar material
Tranquillity Base)
195:18:35
244:36:25
First lunar landing; Sea of
Apollo 12
Nov. 14-24, 1969
Charles Conrad, Jr.
(Yankee Clipper &
Recovery Ship - Hornet
Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
Storms; 2 EVAs total 7 hrs. 39
Alan L. Bean
min., 75 lbs. lunar material
Intrepid) Apollo 13
April 11-17, 1970
James A. Lovell, Jr.
(Odyssey &
Recovery Ship - Iwo
Fred W. Haise, Jr.
Aquarius)
Jima
John L. Swigert, Jr.
142:54:41
Second lunar landing; Ocean of
Planned lunar landing aborted after oxygen tank rupture
216:42:01
Apollo 14
Jan. 31 - Feb. 9, 1971
Alan B. Shepard
(Kitty Hawk &
Recovery Ship - New
Stuart A. Roosa
2 EVAs total 9 hrs. 25 min.,
Antares)
Orleans
Edgar D. Mitchell
returned 98 lbs. lunar material
Apollo 15
July 26 - Aug. 7, 1971
David R. Scott
(Endeavor & Falcon)
Recovery Ship -
James B. Irwin
Apennine; 3 surface EVAs,
Okinawa
Alfred M. Worden, Jr.
totaling 18 hrs. 36 min., returned
295:12
Third lunar landing; Fra Mauro;
Fourth lunar landing; Hadley
173 lbs. samples 265:51:06
Apollo 16
April 16-27, 1972
John W. Young
(Casper & Orion)
Recovery Ship -
Thomas K. Mattingly
Fifth lunar landing; Descartes highlands; 3 surface EVAs
Ticonderoga
Charles M. Duke, Jr.
totaling 20 hrs. 14 min., returned 210 lbs. samples
Eugene A. Cernan
301:51:59
Apollo 17
Dec. 17-19, 1973
Sixth lunar landing; Taurus-
(America &
Recovery Ship -
Ronald E. Evans
Littrow; 3 surface EVAs totaling
Challenger)
Ticonderoga
Harrison H. Schmitt
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 LI 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
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.
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A scientist examining moon rock under a microscope.
Moon Crossword 1
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Storms Moon 6
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Snoopy Earth
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Apollo Three 9
Young
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Lunar Astronaut 12
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Reentry Orbit Mattingly Armstrong Tranquility Rover
ACROSS 1. Space traveler. ________________ 5. Site of lunar landing on Apollo 12 - Ocean of ____________________. 7. Returning into the Earth’s 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
Earth’s Moons
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Basalt
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Shock
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Rocks
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Water
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Nine
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Seas Rust Sol
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Age NE East
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ACROSS 3. 4. 6. 8. 10. 13.
The Moon’s __________________ 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
Dates
Crew
Time in Space
Remarks
Apollo 1
Jan. 27, 1967
Virgil I. Grissom
Accidental fire during ground
Edward H. White, II
test took the astronauts’ lives
Roger Chaffee Apollo 7
Oct. 11-22, 1968
Walter M. Schirra
Recovery Ship - Essex
Donn Eisele
260:8:45
163 revolutions
147:00:11
10 revolutions of the Moon
241:00:53
151 revolutions of the Earth
192:03:23
31 revolutions of the Moon
Walter Cunningham Apollo 8
Dec. 21-27, 1968
Frank Borman
Recovery Ship -
James A. Lovell, Jr.
Yorktown
William Anders
Apollo 9
Mar. 3-13, 1969
James A. McDivitt
(Gumdrop & Spider)
Recovery Ship -
David R. Scott
Guadalcanal
Russell L. Schweickart
Apollo 10
May 18-26, 1969
Thomas P. Stafford
(Charlie Brown &
Recovery Ship -
John W. Young
Snoopy)
Princeton
Eugene A. Cernan
Apollo 11
July 16-24, 1969
Neil A. Armstrong
(Columbia, Eagle,
Recovery Ship - Hornet
Michael Collins
Tranquillity; 1 EVA 2 hrs. 31 min.,
Edwin E. Aldrin
44 lbs. lunar material
Tranquillity Base)
195:18:35
244:36:25
First lunar landing; Sea of
Apollo 12
Nov. 14-24, 1969
Charles Conrad, Jr.
(Yankee Clipper &
Recovery Ship - Hornet
Richard F. Gordon, Jr.
Storms; 2 EVAs total 7 hrs. 39
Alan L. Bean
min., 75 lbs. lunar material
Intrepid) Apollo 13
April 11-17, 1970
James A. Lovell, Jr.
(Odyssey &
Recovery Ship - Iwo
Fred W. Haise, Jr.
Aquarius)
Jima
John L. Swigert, Jr.
142:54:41
Second lunar landing; Ocean of
Planned lunar landing aborted after oxygen tank rupture
216:42:01
Apollo 14
Jan. 31 - Feb. 9, 1971
Alan B. Shepard
(Kitty Hawk &
Recovery Ship - New
Stuart A. Roosa
2 EVAs total 9 hrs. 25 min.,
Antares)
Orleans
Edgar D. Mitchell
returned 98 lbs. lunar material
Apollo 15
July 26 - Aug. 7, 1971
David R. Scott
(Endeavor & Falcon)
Recovery Ship -
James B. Irwin
Apennine; 3 surface EVAs,
Okinawa
Alfred M. Worden, Jr.
totaling 18 hrs. 36 min., returned
295:12
Third lunar landing; Fra Mauro;
Fourth lunar landing; Hadley
173 lbs. samples 265:51:06
Apollo 16
April 16-27, 1972
John W. Young
(Casper & Orion)
Recovery Ship -
Thomas K. Mattingly
Fifth lunar landing; Descartes highlands; 3 surface EVAs
Ticonderoga
Charles M. Duke, Jr.
totaling 20 hrs. 14 min., returned 210 lbs. samples
Eugene A. Cernan
301:51:59
Apollo 17
Dec. 17-19, 1973
Sixth lunar landing; Taurus-
(America &
Recovery Ship -
Ronald E. Evans
Littrow; 3 surface EVAs totaling
Challenger)
Ticonderoga
Harrison H. Schmitt
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 LI 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
