Space Exploration

The United States launched its own artificial satellite, _______ into space in 1958.

• Explorer I

• Sputnik

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

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

The Soviet Union launched ________, the worlds first artificial satellite, into the Earth's orbit in 1957.

• Sputnik

• Explorer I

A tool for viewing and observing

• telescope
  
• space shuttle

I orbit Earth and help your cell phones work. What am I?

• Space Shuttle 
• Rover
• Satellite
• Rocket

Which planet has had rovers sent to it to study its soil?

• Mercury
• Venus
• Earth
• Mars

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

• telescope
• periscope
• space shuttle
• rover

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

• Challenger
• Voyager 
• Gemini
• Apollo 

I am a vehicle that explored the surface of the moon. No humans were with me! What am I?

• Space Shuttle
• Rocket
• Satellite
• Rover

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

• Space shuttle
• Rocket
• Space ship
• Space probe