Space Exploration Review

For rockets to orbit Earth, it must have enough thrust to reach............

• escape velocity

• orbital velocity

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

For a rocket to travel beyond Earth's orbit - to completely break away from the planet's gravitational pull - it must achieve............

• orbital velocity

• escape velocity

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NGSS.HS-PS2-4

The United States successfully launched its first satellite, _________________, in 1958.

• Sputnik 1

• Explorer 1

• Challenger

• Discovery

Who said landing on the moon was "one step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?

• Buzz Aldrin

• Neil Armstrong

• Charles Conrad

• James Irwin

What country launched the world's first satellite in 1957?

• Russia

• United States

• China

• Japan

This observatory was launched by NASA in 1991 and features four main telescopes in one spacecraft.

• Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

• Hubble Telescope

• Chandra X-ray Observatory

• Spitzer Space Telescope

This observatory remained in orbit 10 years longer than its design life.

• Hubble Telescope

• Chandra X-Ray Telescope

• Spitzer Space Telescope

• Compton Gamma Ray Telescope

Probe ( definition )

• A method of transportation

• A tool used for cooking food

• a spacecraft that drops into a planet's atmosphere

• A type of musical instrument

Orbit ( definition )

• a path of an object in space as it moves around another object due to gravity.

• i don't know

• running on another object

• driving around another object

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

Where is the Fuel?