Space Exploration and Technology

The first major optical space telescope to be put into space was

• Hubble Telescope

• Mir

• James Webb Space Telescope

• Voyager

A small robotic space probe that can move about on the surface of a planet or moon is

• Orbiter

• Rover

• Space Station

• Apollo

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Unmanned space vehicles that take instruments into space to collect data are called

• Satellite

• Space Shuttle

• Rocket

• Space Probe

Scientists at NASA are planning a human mission to the space station. Which of these spacecraft would they use to deliver astronauts to the space station?

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Man first set foot on the moon in what year?

• 1969

• 1973

The name of the space program that was dedicated to putting a man on the moon was ____________.

• Apollo

• Mercury

An optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and brighter by use of a combination of lenses and curved mirrors.

• space shuttle

• telescope

• rocket

• satellite

Who was the first human to walk on the moon?

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

• Alan Shepard

• David Scott

What was the first human-made satellite?

• Voyager

• Apollo 1

• GPS

• Sputnik 1

Which of the pictures below shows the Hubble Space Telescope?

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