Space Exploration Review

The International Space Station is a large ________.

• rocket

• moon landing

• spacecraft

Humans have:

• traveled to the moon

• survived 10 years or longer on space missions

• landed probes on Mars, Venus, comets, and many other bodies in space

• sent probes speeding past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune

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What is a machine that uses escaping to move?

• space shuttle

• probe

• satellite

• rocket

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The Russian high school teacher that proposed that machines called "rockets" could take people to outer space was....

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

• Alfred Wegener

Why must rocket's launches be so powerful or why must the propulsion of the launch be so great?

• gravity

• orbital and escape velocity

• speed

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NASA stands for

• National Air Space Administration

• North American Space Administration

• National Aeronautics Science Administration

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Any human-made object placed in orbit around a body in space is a(n)........

• natural satellite

• probe

• artificial satellite

• rocket

What was the first artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957?

• Challenger

• Sputnik 1

• Explorer 1

• STS-135

An unmanned vehicle that carries scientific instruments to planets or other bodies in space.

• space probe

• satellite

• space shuttle

• rocket

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First great observatory launched by NASA in 1990 that orbits Earth with a speed of 5 miles per second.

• Spitzer Space Telescope

• Chandra X-ray Observatory

• Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

• Hubble Telescope