Solar System
What is a rocky (or terrestrial) planet?
The technical term for the process of a solid object being stretched and compressed into a long, thin shape upon entering a black hole.
What is spaghettification?
These space probes carry an audio-video recording called the "Golden Record" meant to serve as a time capsule of sorts about life on Earth.
What are Voyager 1 & 2?
This planet is blue because of methane gas in its atmosphere, and it rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
The rocket used during the Artemis II mission.
What is the SLS (space launch system)?
The outer planets are all classified as this type of planet.
Term for the theoretical point of infinite density at the center of a black hole.
What is singularity?
He made history in 1961 when he became the first human being to journey into outer space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The giant storm twice as big as Earth that has been swirling on the fifth planet from the sun for hundreds of years.
What is the great red spot?
Date of the Artemis II launch
What is April 1, 2026?
Name the eight planets in order from the sun starting with the closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
*In 1992, aboard the Endeavour, she became the first African American woman in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
*Despite being 10 times the size of the Earth, this sixth planet from the sun would actually float in water.
What is Saturn?
Name of the zero-gravity indicator carried by the crew, a plush toy designed by 8-year-old California student Lucas Ye.
What is rise?
*Six-letter word for a large piece of rock from space that passes into Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
The boundary surrounding a black hole from which nothing, not even light, can escape.
What is the event horizon?
*While Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin explored the moon, he orbited about 70 miles above.
Who is Michael Collins?
The nickname of the hottest planet in our solar system, a result of its similar size to our home planet.
What is Earth's sister/twin?
Record that the Artemis II astronauts achieved on their mission.
What is the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth?
Distances within the Solar System can be measured in what two ways?
What is astronomical units and by the speed of light (light minutes, light years, etc)?
Princeton physicist who coined the term "black hole" in the 1960s.
Who is John Wheeler?
*The Space Center in Houston is named for this president, who was an early advocate of manned space flight.
Who is Johnson?
Pluto is not considered a planet due to this reason.
What is it shares its orbit with other objects?
The 4 astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft.
Who are Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen>