What is force equals mass times acceleration, F = ma.
100
A vehicle, typically cylindrical, containing liquid or solid propellants which produce hot gasses.
What is a rocket?
100
The two space shuttle missions that ended in disaster.
What is Challenger and Discovery or Columbia?
200
Yuri Gagarin
Who was the first person in space?
200
Space spinoff
What is something that was developed for space but has uses for earth
200
When two bodies interact by exerting force on each other, these action and reaction forces are equal in magnitude, but opposite in direction.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
200
The first artificial satellite launched by the Russians.
What is Sputnik?
200
Apollo 13
What Apollo mission was aborted when an oxygen tank exploded two days into the mission?
300
John Glenn
Who was the first American to orbit Earth?
300
microgravity
What is the word for feeling weightlessness
300
A rocket launch.
What is an example of Newton's Third Law?
300
the gas expelling out of the rocket to make the rocket go upward.
What is thrust?
300
ISS
What is the acronym for the International Space Station.
400
Christa McAuliffe
Who was the first teacher to go into space?
400
Rover
What is a small robot that can travel the surface of a planet
400
Sir Isaac Newton
What is the name of the person for whom Newton's Laws of Motion are named after?
400
Friction forces in the atmosphere that slow a rocket's flight.
What is drag?
400
Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity
What is name of the three most recent rovers sent to Mars?
500
Michael Collins
What is the name of the astronaut who remained in orbit during the moon landing in 1963?
500
Dog
What is the first living creature in space
500
Newton's First Law of Motion
What is every object continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless compelled to change that state by external forces acted upon it?
500
The cargo carried by a rocket.
What is payload?
500
Hubble Space Telescope
What is the name of the first major optical telescope in space?