Exploring Space

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

• Velocity

• Satellite

• Orbit Velocity

• Rocket

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

The reacting force that propels a rocket forward.

• Thrust

• Rover

• Space station

• Vacuum

A speed in a given direction

• Rover

• Velocity

• space station

• Space spinoff

The velocity a rocket must achieve to establish an orbit around another object in space

• Orbit Velocity

• Velocity

• Space shuttle

• probe

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The velocity a rocket must reach to escape from a planet or moons gravitational pull

• Vacuum

• Satellite

• Escape velocity

• Geosynchronous orbit

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NGSS.HS-PS2-1

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

An object that revolves around another object in space

• revolving

• Meteoroid

• satellite

• vacuum

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A small robotic space probe that can move about the surface pf a planet or moon

• Rover

• Space station

• Microgravity

• Remote sensing

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

A spacecraft that can bring a group into space and bring them back to earth and be used for the same purpose all over again

• Vacuum

• Orbital velocity

• Rover

• Space shuttle

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

A place that is empty of all matter

• rocket

• Microgravity

• vacuum

• Geosynchronous orbit

A large artificial satellite on which people can live and work for long periods

• space station

• Velocity

• Thrust

• rocket

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-4