The Planets
The Stars
The Moon
Ladies Only
Anything Goes!
100
The hottest of all the planets.
Mercury
100
Name this constellation
The Big Dipper
100
The first person to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
100
The first American woman to go into space in 1983
Sally Ride
100
How much do astronauts grow in space?
a. 1-2 inches
b. 3-4 inches
c. they stay the same size
a. 1-2 inches
200
The fourth planet from the sun
Mars
200
How long would it take you to travel from Earth to the closet star?
a. 6 months
b. 5 years
c. 73,000 years
In a spaceship, it would take us 73,000 years to arrive at the closest star!
200
The Apollo program was designed to send astronauts where?
To the moon!
200
Does the Sun orbit the Earth, or does the Earth orbit the Sun?
The Earth orbits around the sun. It takes the Earth 365 days to complete one orbit.
300
Known as the Goldilocks planet.
Earth
300
What Italian Astronomer was the first to study the stars through a telescope?
Galileo
300
How far is the moon from planet Earth?
a. 30,000 miles
b. 238,900 miles
c. 1 light year
b. 238,900 mi
300
She is known as the "Mother of Hubble".
Nancy Roman joined NASA in 1958 and was its first chief astronomer.
LEGO included her in their Women of NASA set in 2017.
300
The largest volcano in the solar system is called Olympus Mons. What planet is it on?
Mars
400
The largest planet
Jupiter
400
This brightest star in the sky is called...
Sirius
400
What is the name of the Earth's moon?
It's just "Moon", because no one knew any other moons existed until Galileo discovered 4 of Jupiter's moons in 1610.
400
True or False: There is a Girl Scout science lab in outer space.
400
How many moons does Mars have?
2 - Phobos and Deimos
500
The coldest planet in the solar system
Uranus
500
Stars can be different colors.
What determines a star's color?
How much heat the star gives off.
Red= coolest
Yellow=medium
White or Blue= hottest
500
What is a New Moon?
When the Moon cannot be seen, because we are looking at the unlit half of the Moon.
500
Known as the "human computer", she calculated trajectories for Apollo 11's flight to the moon in 1969.
Katherine Johnson
500
Nasa stands for National ________ and Space Administration.
Aeronautics
(Aeronautics is the science of flying)