Space Exploration - Weekly Exam

The first satellite launched into space by Russia was...

• Challenger

• Sputnik

• Voyager 1

• Slim Shady

What is the ISS?

• International Soldiers of Space

• Inside Sun Section

• International Space Station

• International Space Services

An instrument that travels into the solar system, gathers information, and sends it back to Earth.

• Space shuttle

• Rocket

• Space ship

• Space probe

Which space equipment transports humans into space from Earth?

• Space shuttle

• Space probe

• Satellite

• S-Class

What object is launched into orbit and designed to send and receive information?

• rover

• satellite

• space shuttle

• GPS

Which astronauts were the first to walk on the moon?

• Buzz Lightyear and Woody

• Alan Shepard and Sally Ride

• Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong

• John Glenn and Yuri Gargarin

What was the first creature in space?

• a dog

• a human

• a hamster

• a rat

Which president set the goal for America to get to the moon?

• Bush

• Clinton

• Kennedy

• Eisenhower

Gravity on the moon is _____ than that on the Earth.

• the same
• greater
• less
• non existent

The force that keeps planets on there orbit...

• orbit
• stars
• planets
• gravity