Astro Ch 2--Section 1/2

Space probes launched in 1977 on Interstellar Mission to explore the outer planets and beyond

• Voyager 1 & 2
• Spirit & Opportunity
• Sputnik & Pioneer 10
• Viking & Magellan

Instrument that travels into the solar system, gathers information and sends it back to Earth

• Space shuttle
• Rocket
• Space ship
• Space probe

First artificial satellite launched into space

• Laika

• Sergei

• Sigmund

• Sputnik I

Country that sent the first man into space, Yuri Gagarin, in 1961

• China

• Soviet Union (Russia)

• USA

• Antarctica

Country that landed the first man on the Moon

• Soviet Union (Russia)
• Iceland
• China
• USA

Final stage of USA’s goal to get to the Moon. This program landed a spacecraft on the Moon.

• Project Moon
• Project Apollo
• Project Mercury
• Project Gemini

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

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

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

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

A device that expels gas in one direction to move in the opposite direction

• rocket

• space probe

• space station

• rover

To fly beyond a planet's gravitational pull, a spacecraft must reach

• velocity

• orbital velocity

• escape velocity