Projects
Telescopes
Radiant Energy
Satellites/Space Probes
Terms
100
Two spacecraft hook up together while in orbit
What is Project Gemini?
100
Optical telescopes that use concave mirrors to focus light from objects.
What is reflecting telescopes?
100
Longest wavelength
What is radio waves?
100
Space probe launched to study Saturn
What is Cassini?
100
Most optical telescopes used by professional astronomers are housed in
What is observatories?
200
The final stage of the space program
What is Project Apollo?
200
These study radio waves traveling through space.
What is radio telescopes?
200
Shortest wavelength
What is gamma rays?
200
Because it is used more than once to send people into space, this saves resources
What is space shuttle?
200
Reusable spacecraft that glides back to Earth after it leaves orbit
What is space shuttle?
300
John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth
What is Project Mercury?
300
These allow us to study the visible light radiated by the stars.
What is optical telescopes?
300
The arrangement of electromagenetic waves according to wavelengths
What is electromagnetic spectrum?
300
Voyagers are examples of what that have traveled beyond our solar system
What is space probe?
300
Motors that don't require air to burn fuel
What is rockets?
400
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the moon
What is Project Apollo?
400
Light passes through convex lenses.
What is refracting telescopes?
400
Wavelengths of visible light compared to those of X rays.
What is longer?
400
A cosmonaut spent 438 days living and working in Mir, an example of a
What is a space station?
400
The path of a satellite around Earth is called its
What is orbit?
500
This was the first stage in the space program designed to send Americans to the moon.
What is Project Mercury?
500
These are useful under most weather conditions and at all times of night and day
What is radio telescopes?
500
Shorter than microwaves and longer than visible light
What is infrared waves?
500
Any object that orbits Earth
What is a satellite?
500
The Hubble Space Telescope is an example of what type of telescope
What is reflecting?
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