Space Movement
Life Support Systems
Orbits
Jets
Space Survival
100

Parachutes slow spacecraft down using this force.

What is drag?

100

The name of one of the International Space Station's Life Support Systems.

What is the Water Recovery System, Oxygen Generation System, or the Sabatier System?

100

True or false: The closer a satellite is to a planet, the faster it must travel to stay in orbit.

What is true?

100

The law of motion that explains how jet engines create propulsion. 

What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?

100

Several organizations, including NASA, are currently researching how to grow these in space.

What are crops?

200

The satellite on track to orbit around Jupiter's moon Europa and collect information on its liquid ocean.

What is the Europa Clipper?

200

The life support system which cleans and purifies sweat, exhalation, and urine on the International Space Station. 

What is the water recovery system?

200

The thick layer of gasses surrounding Earth and other planets.

What is the atmosphere?

200

A chemical that releases oxygen for a fuel to burn.

What is an oxidizer?

200

Astronauts require fewer of these in space, as they move differently in microgravity.

What are fluids? or What is water?

300

The path of an object moving through space.

What is trajectory? 

300

What the oxygen generation system uses to produce oxygen.

What is water?

300

The force of flight that must balance against thrust for satellites to stay in orbit. 

What is weight?

300

The slang name for a personal watercraft that uses jet propulsion to move.

Jet Ski

300

Astronauts on the International Space Station use these to exercise instead of weights.

What are resistance bands?

400

The definition of Newton's Third Law

What is "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?"

400

The gas, other than hydrogen, that the Sabatier System uses to produce water on the International Space Station.

What is carbon dioxide?

400

Earth's natural satellite

What is the moon?

400

The chemical mixture that combines fuel and oxidizer and is combusted in a rocket engine.

What is propellant?

400

Astronauts require more of this to stay healthy in space. 

What is food?

500

The phase of space flight between launch and landing when a spacecraft is moving in a mostly straight-line path. 

What is the cruise phase?

500

The waste gas produced by the Sabatier System.

What is methane gas?

500

The layer of Earth's atmosphere where the International Space Station orbits.

What is the thermosphere?

500

The part of a jet engine which pushes out fluid and produces thrust.

What is the nozzle?

500

Astronauts maintain bone health in space using this machine. 

What is a Treadmill with Vibration Isolation and Stabilization (TVIS)? 

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