Space Exploration

a person trained to travel to space and perform a specific job

• astronaut

• catanaut

• specialist

• probe

A vehicle sponsored by sixteen nations that circles the earth while astronauts living on board carry out

experiments

• International Space Station

• Space Shuttle

• Space Probe

• Space Rocket

A US government agency in charge of the space program

• NASA

• JPL

• FDA

• ABSS

an unmanned spacecraft designed to send information back to Earth

• satellite

• shuttle

• space station

• probe

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a reusable spacecraft that used rockets to launch but could land like a plane when returning to Earth

• satellite

• space shuttle

• space station

• probe

A 20-year competition of space exploration between the United States and former Soviet Union

• space race

• astro race

• moon race

• cold war

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an item that was originally developed for use in space but has uses on Earth

• space spinoff

• space shuttle

• space program

an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and brighter by using lenses and curved

mirrors

• telescope

• microscope

• radar

• satellite

A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial object.

• rover
• the International Space Station
• Observetory
• Space probe

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Who was the first man on the moon?

• Drew Henniger

• Hitler

• Yuri Gagarin

• Neil Armstrong