Space Movement
Parachutes slow spacecraft down using this force.
What is drag?
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?
The closer a satellite is to a planet, the ______ it must travel to stay in orbit.
What is faster?
The law of motion that explains how jet engines create propulsion.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
Several organizations, including NASA, are currently researching how to grow these in space.
What are crops?
The satellite on track to orbit around Jupiter's moon Europa and collect information on its liquid ocean.
What is the Europa Clipper?
The life support system which cleans and purifies sweat, exhalation, and urine on the International Space Station.
What is the water recovery system?
The thick layer of gasses surrounding Earth and other planets.
What is the atmosphere?
A chemical that releases oxygen for a fuel to burn.
What is an oxidizer?
Astronauts require fewer of these in space, as they move differently in microgravity.
What are fluids? or What is water?
The path of an object moving through space.
What is trajectory?
What the oxygen generation system uses to produce oxygen.
What is water?
Earth's natural satellite
What is the moon?
The slang name for a personal watercraft that uses jet propulsion to move.
Jet Ski
Astronauts on the International Space Station use these to exercise instead of weights.
What are resistance bands?
The definition of Newton's Third Law
What is "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?"
The gas, other than hydrogen, that the Sabatier System uses to produce water on the International Space Station.
What is carbon dioxide?
The force of flight that must balance against thrust for satellites to stay in orbit.
What is weight?
The chemical mixture that combines fuel and oxidizer and is combusted in a rocket engine.
What is propellant?
Astronauts maintain muscular health aboard the ISS using this machine?
What is the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED)?
What is the Cycle Ergometer with Vibration Isolation System (CEVIS)?
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?
The waste gas produced by the Sabatier System.
What is methane gas?
The layer of Earth's atmosphere where the International Space Station orbits.
What is the thermosphere?
The part of a jet engine which pushes out fluid and produces thrust.
What is the nozzle?
Astronauts maintain bone health in space using this machine.
What is a Treadmill with Vibration Isolation and Stabilization (TEVIS)?