Space Missions

What’s a robot spacecraft?

• one that has got animals on board

• one that has got people on board

• one that doesn’t have people on board

Which space mission launched first?

• Apollo 8

• STS 51L

• MER

reusuable spacecraft that transports people and materials to and from space

• shuttle

• satellite

• orbiter

• lander

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series of missions designed to send people to the moon and back

• Apollo

• Mercury

• Gemini

• Artemis

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space probes which touch down on the surface

• flyby

• lander

• orbiter

• revolver

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space probes which revolve around the object

• flyby

• lander

• orbiter

• rover

government organization that oversees all space missions

• NASA

• CIA

• FBI

• Homeland Security

small object, manmade or natural, that obits a larger object

• satellite

• moon

• Sputnik

• Explorer

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How are satellites used?

• monitor weather

• by the military

• for phones and television

• navigation and mapping

Which vehicle’s engine is filled with chemical propellants?

• rocket
• rover
• satellite
• space shuttle

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