Rocketry
This rocket transported the Hubble and pieces of the International Space Station into orbit.
What was the Space Shuttle?
Curved glass that bends light.
What are lenses?
The distance between Earth and the Sun, in kilometers or miles.
How far is 150,000,000 kilometers or 93,000,000 miles?
The item that magnifies far away objects.
What is a telescope?
This graph shows connected dots or points.
What is a Line Graph/Chart?
This rocket, named for a type of Greek gods and used for Project Gemini, transported dual astronauts into orbit to practice maneuvers for the Apollo Program.
What was the Titan Rocket?
Curved surfaces that reflect light.
What are mirrors?
What is an "astronomical unit" or AU?
What is the distance between the Earth or Sun? (150 million km/93 million miles)
This habitable object orbits Earth and allows astronauts to do experiments in space.
What is the International Space Station?
This circular chart shows the percentage or fraction of the total.
What is a Pie Graph/Chart?
This rocket transported John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth, into space.
What was the Atlas Rocket?
The energy that telescopes magnify and observe.
What is light?
The distance light travels in a year.
What is a "light year", or nearly 6 trillion miles?
The improvements in pictures from placing telescopes in space, above the atmosphere.
What are clearer, crisper, less blurred, higher quality, and further seen into space?
This graph uses rectangles that stretch upwards to specific values.
What is a Bar Graph/Chart?
This rocket transported Alan Sheppard, the first American in space, into a sub-orbital flight.
What was the Redstone Rocket?
The thin layer of gases around Earth that somewhat distorts the images of ground-based telescopes.
What is the atmosphere?
The number of astronomical units (AU) in a light year (ly).
How many is over 63,000 AU?
The reason that we still observe light from many far away galaxies despite no longer existing.
What is long distance from Earth?
Mr. Becker enjoys making fun of this round, split chart because its name resembles a yummy, fruity desert.
What is a Pie Chart/Graph?
This rocket transported people to the Moon.
What was the Saturn V?
The person who initially discovered "red-shift" of galaxies and the expansion of the Universe; has a space telescope named after him.
Who was Edwin Hubble?
The distance of the furthest observable galaxies.
How far is over 13 billion light years?
This space telescope, launched in 1990, has provided an enormous amount of astronomic information.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
These two charts show similar forms of information: one, with vertical rectangles; the other, with connected points.
What are Bar and Line Graphs/Charts?