Words Containing "Space"
Also known as an EVA, this type of activity requires an astronaut to leave the spacecraft.
What is an EVA?
This shuttle hosted the first American woman and the first African American in space.
What is Challenger?
In "The Right Stuff" this space hero made a cameo as Fred, the bartender.
Who is Chuck Yeager?
The same month Sputnik 3 was launched, this U.S. president became the first American elected official to appear on color television.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This body system is thrown "off balance" by the lack of gravity in space.
What is the vestibular system?
Oxford Dictionary describes it as "out of touch with reality, as though high on drugs".
What is spacey?
This shuttle replaced Challenger in 1992.
What is Endeavor?
This popular Pixar movie inspired the names for two CubeSats; "There's plenty of space out in space!"
What is Wall-E?
February 3rd, 1952 "The Day the Music Died", three days later this intercontinental ballistic missile was launched.
What is Titan I?
This cohesive property allows liquid to form spherical blobs.
What is surface tension?
A site for launching and retrieving a spacecraft, often used within mulitple companies and agencies.
What is a spaceport?
This shuttle returned home from docking with Mir containing eight astronauts.
What is Atlantis?
In "2001: A Space Odyssey", Stanley Kubrick hired mimes to play these animals.
What are apes?
May 1962, Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times, earlier this month this popular discount store opens; "Expect more, pay less".
What is Target?
This is the opposing force to thrust, the property that pushes an object in a certain direction.
A dimension that serves as a means of circumventing normal space-time relationships.
What is hyperspace?
Endeavor and this other space shuttle were names after Captain Cook's ships.
What is Discovery?
"It's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than..." this astronomical unit.
What is a parsec?
March 18, 1965: The first EVA. Next month, this Julie Andrews' film wins five Oscars.
What is "Mary Poppins"?
Mars' rover Curiosity has found this building blocks for these molecules that combine to make proteins.
What are amino acids?
To occupy area between; an interval
What is interspaced?
This shuttle was the heaviest, weighing 2,200 lbs more than Challenger.
What is Columbia?
"A Trip to the Moon" depicts a group of astronomers shot out of this military artillary dating back to the 13th century.
What is a cannon?
July 1969: The first person walks on the Moon. Two months later this North Vietnam president dies of heart failure.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The process of cooling particles to a near absolute zero temperature creates this fifth state of matter.
What is a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)?