To The Moon and Beyond

To The Moon and Beyond

By Vishesh, Jeff, Akassh and Arian ​

Giant rockets were the first to launch astronauts into space. They could only be used at once, making space travel cost millions of dollars. The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable craft, and it could launch like a rocket and land like a plane. It wasn’t until the 21st century that the first fully reusable spacecraft was launched, known as SpaceShipOne

Did You Know: The cost of sitting in the Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo goes between 250,000 to 500,000 dollars, which rounds up to 900,000 dirhams at its lowest, and 1.8 million at its highest!

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Getting into the orbit

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Multiple Choice

What was the name of the fully reusable spacecraft called?

•  spaceshipone

• Boeing AH-64 Apache

• TARDIS

Multiple Choice

What is The cost of sitting in the Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo?

• 250k-500k

• 25k-50k

• 2.5k-5k

• 250-500

Satellites are one of the main benefits of space travel. A type of satellite is an artificial satellite.An artificial satellite is an object that people have made and launched into orbit using rockets. There are currently over 3,000 active satellites orbiting the Earth. Meteorologists  use satellites to monitor the weather across large areas of the earth. Satellites like the hubble telescope provide astronomers with images that are not distorted by the earth's atmosphere

Artificial Satellites

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Multiple Select

How many active satellites are there orbiting the earth Answer?

• 3000

• 3k

• 3.000

• 30.00

Open Ended

Satellites like the hubble telescope provide astronomers with what type of images?

The International Space Station

The ISS is an orbiting research lab. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, ESA, and CSA. Here astronauts can carry out experiments that are not possible on Earth. Experience of living on the ISS can help us understand how to live safely in space and how to behave/act in different situations.

Multiple Choice

The ISS is an orbiting research lab?

• it is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies

• No It is just a waste of money

• No it is for Travel and tourism

• It captures clear images

Roving over Mars

Between 1997 and 2012 four rovers- wheeled robots that could carry out scientific experiments- have successfully landed on mars.Rovers help scientists in their quest to understand what different parts of the planet are made of. Mars is made up of lots of different types of rocks, and each rock is made up of a mixture of chemicals. As per to some finding scientist have found evidence to the fact that water used to be present on Mars.This can help us find another planet that humans can live on.

Multiple Choice

Between 1997 and 2012 how many rovers wheeled robots that could carry out scientific experiments?

• 4

• 8

• 6

• 10

Multiple Choice

what is each rock from mars made of? Answer

• Chemical Mixture

• Physical Mixture

• Chemical Solution

Going Be​yond

By sending robotic spacecraft to orbit or land on other planets or their moons, it might be possible to study their surface and atmosphere.

Going Be​yond

The Photo shown here, taken by the Galileo spacecraft that orbits Jupiter, shows us the amount of gas and dust from a volcano, that had erupted on its moon

Going Be​yond

It was the most powerful volcano eruption that was recorded on io, on February 22nd, 2001. It had gone up to 1300 degrees celsius, and they are known as outburst eruptions. Who knows what could occur on other planets!

Multiple Choice

By sending robotic spacecraft to orbit or land on other planets or their moons, it might be possible to study what? Answer

• to study their surface and atmosphere.

• To just see the Surface for travel and tourism

EOC Questions

Q1) How long is it since humans have walked on the moon? 

Q2)a) Why is weather satellite more useful than a ground based weather station?

      b) What advantage does a space telescope have over a ground based telescopes? 

Q3) Space travel used to be so expensive that only the world’s superpowers could send people into space. What developments have made it potentially affordable to tourists?

Q4) Do some research into the life of an astronauts on the ISS. Write a short story about the life on board the ISS, describing what the astronauts do and what it is like to live onboard?

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