Space Exploration

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

• space rocket
• space shuttle
• space probe
• telescope

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

Unlike previous space mission the space shuttle was unique because it could be landed like an ________________________ and be reused.

• boat
• car
• airplane
• capsule

In 1972 what space mission was responsible for getting a man on the moon?  

• Challenger
• Voyager 
• Gemini
• Apollo 

What scientist use a telescope to observe the night sky and led to him being called the father of astronomy?

• Galileo
• Einstein 
• Dr. Tyson 
• Dr. Wernher von Brauun 

Which piece of equipment explores the outer planets?

• Space Shuttle
• Rover
• Space Probe
• Satellite

Which piece of equipment orbits a celestial body?

• Space Shuttle
• Rover
• Space Probe
• Satellite