Space Exploration: Equipment and Transportation

The investigation of physical conditions in space and on stars, planets, and other celestial bodies through the use of satellites, space probes, or spacecrafts with human crews.

• Space Exploration
• Newton's Law of Gravity
• the ISS
• Space travel

A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial object.

• rover
• the International Space Station
• Observetory
• Space probe

Which vehicle’s engine is filled with chemical propellants?

• rocket
• rover
• satellite
• space shuttle

What is designed and built to transport people and cargo between Earth and space?

• space rocket
• space shuttle
• space probe
• telescope

The International Space Station began in

• 1988
• 1998
• 2000
• 1968

To which rocky planet are scientists planning a manned space mission

• Jupiter
• Mars
• Neptune
• Venus

Which tool allows scientists to take pictures very distant objects such as other galaxies, stars, and planets?

• telescope
• periscope
• space shuttle
• rover

How did Galileo discover the moons on Jupiter

• space mission
• rover
• telescope
• space probe

What object is launched into orbit and designed to send and receive information?

• rover
• satellite
• space shuttle
• space probe

Which space equipment transports humans into space from Earth?

• space shuttle
• space prove
• satellite
• rocket