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WorksheetsEarly Space Exploration
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 4mins
Who became the first person to journey into outer space traveling aboard Vostok 1 in April of 1961?
John Glenn
Alan Shepard
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
How does Newton's third law explain how a rocket will take off?
The rocket doesn't move until ignition
The more mass the rocket has the more force is needs to take off
Gas pushes down, the rocket goes up.
It doesn't.
What is a satellite?
Planet, machine, or moon that orbits a star or planet
A pile of rubbish in space
A planet that sends information to other planets
A moon that has information about other planets
How do satellites help weather forecasters?
by sending phone calls
by beaming TV signals
by taking pictures of Earth
by taking pictures of space
What is the ISS?
Internesting Student Selection
Inside Sun Secrets
International Space Station
Ireland's Space Satellite
Ceramic braces were developed from technology used on...
Lunar rovers
The Space Transportation Systems program
Outer planet probes
Natural Satellites
Which is not a natural satellite?
What name is given to an instrument that travels into the solar system, gathers information and sends it back to Earth
Space shuttle
Rocket
Space ship
Space probe
I photographed pictures of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and sent them back to NASA on Earth. What type of space probe am I?
Lander
Flyby
Orbiter
Shuttle
