Space Exploration Vocab (mod)

Front

Small object orbiting a larger one

Back

Satellite

Front

Vehicles designed to overcome gravity and transport humans or cargo into space.

Back

Rockets

Front

Government organization overseeing US space missions

Back

NASA

Front

Space probes that reach their destination, slow down to be captured by gravity, and revolve around the object.

Back

Orbiters

Front

Space probes that land on their destination.

Back

Landers

Front

Space probes that travel past their destination into deep space.

Back

Flybys

Front

Referring to anything related to the Moon

Back

Lunar

Front

First human spaceflight program of the US

Back

Mercury Missions

Front

Missions to send people to the Moon and back

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Project Apollo

Front

Reusable spacecraft for transporting people and materials to/from space.

Back

Space Shuttle