EX 20, using the semi colon with independent clause

decide whre the semi colon is needed in each of the following sentences. write the word that goes before the semi colon, write the semi colon & write the word that goes after it



1. knowledge about space has not come easily since 1959 about 259 astronauts have flown in space.

2. For the first mercury program, seven test pilots were chosen the group consisted of Air force officers.

3. In 1962, 9 more pilots were selected fourteen were chosen in 1963

4. These pilots flew on 2-person Gemini missions& Apollo flights to the moon this was the last time only Air Force officers were chosen as pilots.

5. The year 1965 marked the beginning of scientist astronauts a group of 6 men & 5 civillians was chosen.

6. All had received master's or doctor's degrees, and only 2 were jet pilots consequently, the rest received one year of military fight training.

7. In 1978, NASA changed the organization of the astronauts twenty mission specialists and 25 new pilots astronauts were chosen.

8. This group included the first 6 women astronauts from the United states indeed, Russia had already sent a woman into space in 1963

9. Many of the astronauts selected since the late4 1970's have held advances degrees this education was useful for mission specialists.

10. in 1983, Ally K. Ride, the first American woman to travel in space, orbited Earth on the space shuttle Challenger in 1990 NASA selected the first woman to become a pilot astronaut, a pilot who commands or controls a spacecraft.