Balderdash in Space

Words

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Gegenschein

a faintly bright spot in the night sky centered at the antisolar point

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Nadir

the downward direction from a spacecraft to the center of a planet below

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Transneptunian

Any planet/dwarf planet that orbits our sun but is further then Neptune

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Zenith

the point on a planet directly above the spacecraft

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Planetoid

Is another term for an asteroid

People

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Gherman Titov

First to spend more than one day in space; youngest person (25 years old) in space      

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Aleksey Leonov

First person to "walk" in space.

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Harrison Schmitt

Last person to walk on the moon

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Eileen Collins

First female shuttle commander

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Fred Haise; James Lovell; Jack Swigert

Traveled the farthest from Earth

Initials

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SCET

Spacecraft Event Time

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A.A.S

American Astronautical Society

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A.C.S

Attitude Control System

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J.P.L

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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U.T.C

Universal Time Coordinated

Dates

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28 April 2001

First paying person to go to space

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4 October 1957

First man made satellite launched in space

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25 May 2012

First privately contracted spacecraft was sent to the International Space Station

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2 December, 1971

First successful landing of a man made object on Mars

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20 July, 1969

First man on the moon