Space Exploration

A reusable spacecraft that launches using rocket boosters and liquid fuel, and glides to a landing on Earth like an airplane.

• rocket

• space shuttle

• airplane

A long-term crewed spacecraft on which scientific research can be carried out.

• space shuttle

• space station

• a house

An uncrewed vehicle that carries scientific instruments to distant objects in space

• probe

• space shuttle

• rover

An uncrewed spacecraft that is designed to enter into orbit around another object in space.

• rounder

• space shuttle

• orbiter

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

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A craft designed to land on the surface of a body in space.

• toaster

• orbiter

• lander

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

A small vehicle that comes out of the lander. It explores the surface of the object in which the lander lands on.

• Lander

• Rover

• Fido

Any human-made object placed in orbit around a body in space

• artificial satellite

• lander

• rover

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

What does NASA stand for?

• Never Ask Someone Anything

• New Astrological Scientific Association

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration

What was the first American mission to the moon called

• Apollo 11

• Apollo 13

• Oasis 11

What country was first to put a man in space?

• USA (Apollo 11)

• Russia (Vostok 1)

• China (China 1)