Rocket Companies
This American space agency is the most successful space agency of all time
What is NASA?
This is the most visited planet (other than Earth).
What is, Mars?
These are celestial bodies that orbit a star but haven't "cleared the neighborhood" around them and are downgraded to this classification.
What are Dwarf Planets?
This was the first space probe put into space.
What is Sputnik?
What is Thrust?
This company flies the Falcon 9 Rocket and the dragon space capsule and was founded by Elon Musk.
What is SpaceX?
This Jovian planet was knocked off axis by an asteroid and now rotates vertically.
What is Uranus?
This is found at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and have a gravitational pull so great, nothing can escape it
What are Black holes?
This Soviet Cosmonaut was the first person to be launched into space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This type of rocket fuel comes as one large grain and is cheaper and most commonly used in hobby (model) rocketry.
What is solid fuel?
An offshoot of NASA, this company is responsible for producing most of the spacecraft NASA has launched such as Curiosity, Perseverance, and Europa Clipper
What is JPL?
These two moons are theorized to have liquid water under their crusts of ice.
What are Enceladus and Europa
This is not the dust tail, but the other tail following behind a comet that is mostly invisible to us and pointed away from the Sun.
What is the Ion/Gas tail?
These were the first animals launched into space
What are Fruit Flies?
This is the most common fuel type used in advanced rocketry companies and is able to be "throttled" by changing the valves.
What is liquid fuel?
This company is most known for producing airplanes and most recently launched the borderline unsuccessful Starliner Capsule to the ISS.
What is Boeing?
This planet has a density low enough that it could theoretically "float" on water
What is Saturn?
This is the name for the cloud of dust and gas that forms from dead stars and also creates new ones.
What are nebula?
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
This rocket part, similar to the wings of an airplane, and also found on aquatic creatures is responsible for keeping the rocket straight during its flight.
What are fins?
This company based in Kent Washington flies more environmentally friendly rockets such as New Glenn and New Shepard.
What is Blue Origin?
This dwarf planet is the only planet found within the Asteroid Belt.
What is Ceres?
These are the hyper-energetic supernovae remnants that emit really high-energy X-rays.
What are Neutron Stars?
This scientist is widely considered as the "father of modern rocketry" and was once a German scientist that was brought to America to start NASA.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
This technique drops spent fuel tanks and unneeded engines to decrease weight and increase efficiency of a rocket.
What is Staging?