Space Exploration
A vehicle designed for travel in space.
What is a spacecraft?
An instrument that detects electromagnetic radiation.
What is a telescope?
Causes 50% of astronauts to get nausea, dizziness, and disorientation.
What is microgravity?
Small pieces of broken satellites and other instruments floating in space.
What is space junk?
Where might you experience weightlessness.
What is a spacecraft?
What is in orbit?
What is Apollo?
A two armed robot that is used to construct and repair work on the outside of the space station.
What is DEXTRE?
Something that the Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field protects us from.
What is radiation?
The approximate speed that space junk travels at.
What is 40,000 km/h?
Floating around even when there is gravity
What is weightlessness?
A spaceship orbiting the Earth, home to many astronauts.
What is the International Space Station?
A 15.2 meter long robotic arm designed and built by Canadians.
What is the Canadarm?
2 effects due to microgravity (other than nausea, dizziness, etc.)
What is blood pooling/dehydration, loss of bone mass?
Way of detecting space junk.
What is a radar?
Causes the illusion of zero gravity.
What is a continuous falling motion?