In the orbit of a satellite, the farthest point from Earth is this.
What is the apogee?
100
He tested the first Liquid propellant rocket engine.
Who is Robert Goddard?
In 1926. Used gasoline and liquid oxygen.
100
After rockets are launched straight up, they tilted in this direction, the same as earth's rotation, for a free boost.
What is east?
100
The nearer the satellite is to earth, the ____ its orbital velocity should be.
What is faster?
100
This orbit remains fixed in space as Earth orbits inside it.
What is polar orbit?
200
Most satellite orbits are in this shape/
What is elliptical?
200
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, father of Russian space travel, had this disability which stimulated his love for learning.
What is deafness?
200
Tsiolkovsky described in his "The Exploration of the World Space with Jet Propulsion Instruments" the first scientifically sound proposal to use these for exploring space.
What are rockets?
200
In February 1962, he became the first American to orbit Earth.
Who is John Glenn?
200
This mission symbolized the gradual improvement of US-Soviet Relations in the late cold war era?
What is Apollo-Soyuz?
1975. American spacecraft, Soviet vehicle.
300
Sputnik 1 was traveling at almost _____ mph while in space.
What is 18000?
300
The American president and Soviet leader during Sputnik 1 were these two, respectively.
Who are Eisenhower and Khrushchev?
300
Although it failed, Ranger __ created history by being the first American spacecraft to land on the moon in 1962.
What is 4?
300
This is the color of the lunar surface, as first discovered by Surveyor 1.
What is gray?
300
The geologic term for the moon's fragmented topsoil.
What is regolith?
400
The US' first manned space program.
What is Project Mercury?
6 missions between 1961-1963.
400
Third nation to send a man into space.
What is China?
Yang Liwei. 2003.
400
The Skylab 3 mission included 2 of these organisms.
What are spiders?
400
In 2001 US millionaire Dennis Tito voyaged to this space station, even though the US objected.
What is ISS?
400
The term for the weight of the upper body pressing down on the lower body as the body is pulled toward the ground by gravity, which is lacking in space, which is why human bones deteriorate in space.
What is mechanical loading?
500
Members of this party are more likely to support the US space program today.
What is the Republican party?
500
The Obama administration directed the space agency towards a manned _____ landing in 2025, something that has never been done.
What is asteroid?
500
The year NASA was created.
What is 1958?
500
According to the latest theory, lunar water is from these which struck the moon billions of years ago.
What are comets?
500
The first Mars mission would probably explore these before the actual planet.