Planets
The planet that is tipped on its side.
What is Uranus?
I was America's first man in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
This consists of a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
This orbit allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the earth at all times.
What is a geostationary orbit?
The planet often called the morning star.
What is Venus?
I was the first human being to set foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
An object that orbits a larger object.
What is a satellite?
What is Explorer 1?
The planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue.
What is Neptune?
I developed the reflecting telescope.
Who is Isaac Newton.
An unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown.
What is a space probe?
The first space flight to land on the moon.
What is the Apollo 11?
The 'red planet'.
What is Mars?
I was the first to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The speed at which light travels.
What is 186,000 miles per second?
The first spacecraft designed to be reused.
What is the space shuttle?
The planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
I was the first American to orbit the earth.
Who is John Glenn?
This term describes how fast a wave oscillates.
What is frequency?
An older Russian space station that was used until 2001.
What is the Mir?
The planet best known for its rings.
What is Saturn?
I was the first man to travel in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This term means the turning back or turning aside of any wave when it hits an obstacle.
What is reflection?
The first artificial object ever put into space.
What is Sputnik 1?
This planets moon is Io.
What is Jupiter?
We discovered the planet Uranus. William Herschel.
Who are William Herschel and his sister Caroline Herschel?
The high point of a wave.
What is a crest?
This object was placed into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
I am known as the "Father of Modern Rocketry."
Who is Robert Goddard?
Whatever carries a wave.
What is a medium?
What is an oscillation?
The planet that is home to man.
What is Earth?
I discovered that white light is made up of many colors.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
A single rise or depression in a wave.
What is a crest?
This type of satellite would relay a phone call from England to Australia.
What is a communications satellite?
I was the astronautical engineer who helped make the United States the leader in space exploration.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
The movement of energy from one place to another.
What is a wave?