Important People
The first man in space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
The first US space station.
What was Skylab?
Two planets are considered sisters.
The reason Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
It can’t clear its orbit and the neighborhood surrounding its orbit.
The distance light can travel in one Earth year.
What is a light year?
The first American in space.
Who was Alan Shepard?
The first artificial satellite.
What was Sputnik 1?
The reason the Earth has four seasons.
What is the Earth’s 23.5 degree tilt on its axis?
The planet that spins on its side.
What is Uranus?
The space between the Earth and the Moon.
What is Cislunar space?
Designed rockets for military use.
Who was Willian Congreve?
Discovered the Van Allen Radiation belts.
What was Explorer 1?
The reason for tides on Earth.
The most prominent gas on Jupiter.
What is hydrogen?
The point at which all molecules no longer move or have the least amount of energy.
What is absolute zero?
Developed the technique of spin stabilization.
Who was William Hale?
The manned spaceflight project linking American and Soviet spacecraft in Earth orbit.
What was Apollo-Soyuz?
The gravitation pull of the Moon compared to the Earth.
What is 1/6?
What is Saturn?
Rapidly rotating star that flashes electromagnetic emissions in a set pattern.
What is a pulsar?
Improved the accuracy of rockets by launching them through tubes.
Who was Jean Froissart?
The US Space transportation System (STS) developed with the goal of reducing spaceflight costs with reusable components.
What is the Space Shuttle?
The thin shell of the Sun’s outer layer.
What is the photosphere?
The largest moon in our solar system.
What is the Ganymede Moon?
A meteoroid is a clump of dust or rock orbiting the Sun.
A meteor is a small streak of light; is only a meteor when it has entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
A meteorite is a meteor that enters Earth’s atmosphere and actually hits Earth’s surface.