Space Exploration

The Apollo mission was

• A one person crew to get in to space

• A 2 person crew that practiced advance docking

• A 3 person crew that carried a man to the moon.

• We still can't get it off the ground. It was delayed again becuse of the tropical storm

The first human to go into space was

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagin

• Allen Shepard

• John Glenn

What is the distance of an AU

• 1 mile

• one unit of space

• the distance between the Earth and the Moon

• The distance between the Earth and the Sun

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

One major difference between an artificial satellite and a space probe is

• a space probe are naturally occurring

• there are no such things as an artificial satellite

• an artificial satellite will orbit an object a space probe will go out in to the universe.

• A space probe will orbit a planet

The first human to step on the moon was

• Yuri Gagin

• Neil Armstrong

• Allen Shepard

• Michael Collins

The nearest star beyond our solar system is 4.2 light years, then

• The light from that star takes 2 years to get to us.

• the light from a star takes 8 years to get to us.

• the light from the star takes 4.2 years to get to us.

• THere is not time difference.

The first human to travel in space was

• Allen Shepard

• Neil Armstrong

• Yuri Gagin

• Michael Collins

What space craft has an ongoing effort to maintain a constant human presence in space. It has been occupied since 2000.

• The Space Shuttle

• The Lunar Module

• The International Space Station

The space probe Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 were sent on fly by missions past

• The ISS

• Mars

• Venus

• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

The trouble experienced with the Hubble space telescope dealt with

• not being able to focus it / mistake when the mirror was shaped

• they could not launch it

• It stopped working

• the Hubble had no problems it is the most successful telescope in history