Section 1
The star that helped early sailors navigate
What is Polaris (the North Star)?
The Father of Modern Astronautics
Who is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?
First artificial satellite placed in orbit
What is Sputnik 1?
One commercial space company discussed in the presentation.
What is SpaceX, Blue Origin, or Rocket Lab?
Famous monument in England, believed to have astronomical alignments
What is Stonehenge?
Argued that Earth sat motionless at the center of the universe
Who is Aristotle?
The Father of American Rocketry
Who is Robert Goddard?
U.S. space station launched in 1973
What is Skylab?
NASA program that aims to return humans to the Moon
What is Artemis?
The first two people to walk on the Moon
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
Civilization that kept detailed records of eclipses and planetary movements
Who are the Babylonians?
Author of The Rocket Into Planetary Space
Who is Hermann Oberth?
The first human to travel into space
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
Orbital laboratory that continues to support international scientific research
What is The International Space Station (ISS)?
The name of the first dog in orbit
Who is Laika?
The mathematical concept that Ptolemy used to explain retrograde planetary motion
What is Epicycles?
The Father of Rocket Science
Who is Wernher von Braun?
The first American woman in space (1983)
Who is Sally Ride?
Space telescope that has provided unprecedented views of early galaxies
What is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)?
Launch innovation that transformed the economics of spaceflight
What are reusable rockets?
Approximate length of time that the Ptolemaic geocentric model remained dominant
What is more than 1,400 years?
Year that Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
When is 1926?
Approximate number of people who worked on Apollo at its peak
What is 400,000?
Future resource on the Moon that could potentially be used to make fuel
What is Lunar ice?
The number of people who walked on the Moon during the Apollo era
What is 12?