Space Exploration

Multiple Choice

Reusable spacecraft that transports astronauts, satellites, and other materials to and from space.

• Space ship
• Space shuttle
• Voyager 1
• Space station

Multiple Choice

Long term research laboratory in space, constructed with resources from 15 different nations.

• Space Shuttle
• Space Probe
• Satellite
• International Space Station

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A person who is trained for traveling in space

• Astronaut 
• Sputnik
• Light-year
• Satellite

Space Vehicles: Rockets and Shuttles

• What Is It: Rocket-launched vehicles that make trips around Earth (some has gone as far as the moon). Some manned, some unmanned

• Purpose: Research the effects of space on living and nonliving things.

Multiple Choice

A vehicle designed to propel itself by ejecting exhaust gas from one end

• shuttle

• rocket

• satellite

• probe

Satellites

• What Is It: Object that orbits around a body in space. Moons are natural satellites.

• Purpose: Artificial - learn more about planets including Earth (weather, oceans, land) and their moons

Multiple Choice

This orbits a planet, sends waves to and from Earth

• satellite
• spaceprobe
• launch-pad 
• light-year 

Multiple Choice

Rovers can be remote controlled from Earth.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Has no people on it, used to gather information

• space probe

• Space Shuttle
• spacecraft
• launch-pad

Multiple Choice

The first satellite launched into space by Russia 

• Space Suit
• Sputnik
• ISS
• Astronaut

Multiple Choice

What was the first creature in space?

• a dog

• a human

• a hamster

• monkey

Multiple Choice

The first people to walk on the moon. Landed in 1969

• spacecraft 
• ISS 
• Astronaut 
• Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin

Multiple Choice

Which president set the goal for America to get to the moon

• Bush

• Clinton

• Kennedy

• Eisenhower

Space Shuttles

• On April 12, 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia became the first shuttle to orbit the Earth.

• Space shuttles were reusable spacecraft that transported astronauts, satellites, and other materials to and from space from 1981 to 2011.

• This is Discover in 2011 >>>
  

So what is NASA anyway?

• In 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was founded.

• NASA’s space program decides what equipment, accommodations, and transportation are needed for space exploration.

• NASA's Vision: To discover and expand knowledge for the benefit of humanity.

Multiple Choice

Which government agency is charged with managing America’s space exploration and research?

• The National Space Exploration Research Center

• The National Institutes of Science

• The Department of Transportation

• The National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The International Space Station

• The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility currently being assembled in orbit around the Earth.

• It shared by space programs from 16 countries.

• Experiments: cell and tissue growth in microgravity, teaching Science and Engineering, studying the effects of space on the human body, agriculture and plant growth in space, etc.

Multiple Choice

A scientist wants to study the effect of weightlessness on plant growth. Which would be the best place to conduct such experiments?

• The Mars Exploration Rover

• The Hubble Space Telescope

• The Space Shuttle Discovery

• The International Space Station

Multiple Choice

Reusable spacecraft that transports astronauts, satellites, and other materials to and from space.

• Space ship
• Space shuttle
• Voyager 1
• Space station

Telescopes: Hubble

• What It Is: Uses lenses and light to make objects far away appear closer and larger

• Purpose: Learn more about the bodies in space (galaxies, planets, moons, stars, black holes, comets, asteroids, meteors)

Multiple Choice

What is the ISS?

• International Student Services
• Inside Sun Secrets
• International Space Station
• Irritating Science Stuff

Multiple Choice

What was the goal of "Curiosity"?

• the video shows water on Mars

• to have fun remote controlling a vehicle from Earth

• to determine if Mars was ever able to support microbial life

• there are no craters on Mars

Multiple Choice

What is the name of the telescope that was released in space in 1990 and is still exploring today?

• Spitzer

• Fermi

• Hubble

• Bank

Multiple Choice

Which of these is a natural satellite?

• galaxies

• moons

• stars

• comets

Rovers

• What Is It: A planetary surface exploration device designed to move across the solid surface of a planet. If not manned, they are remote controlled.

• Purpose: Collect samples of planetary materials like soil, rocks and liquids.

Multiple Choice

People travel on space probes.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

What kind of materials can rovers collect on their missions?

• soil

• rocks

• liquids

• all of these

Multiple Choice

The ISS stays in low orbit around

• the sun

• Mars

• Earth

• Venus

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