Planets
The planet closest to the sun
What is Mercury?
The first American in space
Who is Alan Shepard?
The high point of a wave
What is a crest?
The first artificial object ever put into space?
What is Sputnik 1?
A single rise or depression in a wave
What is a pulse?
The "red" planet
What is Mars?
The first man to step on the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong?
What is a wave medium?
The first space flight to land on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
The hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus?
The first astronomer to make extensive use of a telescope
How fast a wave oscillates
What is frequency?
The space station being developed by a group of over 15 nations.
What is the International Space Station?
The planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue
What is Neptune?
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
A device that splits light into a spectrum for analysis
What is a spectroscope?
First U.S. satellite
What is Explorer 1
Jupiter's moon
What is Ganymede?
The planet with two moons, Phobos and Deimos
What is Mars?
Engineer who helped U. S. become the leader in space exploration
Who is Von Braun?
Any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern
What is oscillation?
Placed into orbit by a space shuttle to aid astronomer in their studies of the heavens.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the earth at all times
What is geostationary orbit?