TO THE STARS
The Outer Space Treaty prohibits these weapons or "any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction" from space.
What are nuclear weapons?
In 1986 the Giotto spacecraft became the first to fly by the nucleus of a comet, this comet.
What is Halley's Comet?
It has flowing water from time to time, NASA announced in 2015.
What is Mars?
The 88 of these star groupings is a set number--new stars discovered are just added to the closest ones.
What are constellations?
What looks like smoke emanating from Falcon 9 before launch is super-chilled LOx, this liquid gas used as propellant; it's vented as pressure builds, & it's so cold that it actually condenses the atmosphere around the rocket.
What is oxygen?
In 1960 NASA made this German-born man the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Who is Wernher Von Braun?
The 1st commercial facility built as a spaceport, spaceport America lies north of Las Cruces in this state.
What is New Mexico?
Despite being 10 times the size of the Earth, this sixth planet from the sun would actually float in water.
What is Saturn?
A coma is the hazy atmosphere of gases that forms around one of these as it nears the sun.
What is a comet?
In 2015, SpaceX achieved a historic first, when it brought Falcon 9's first stage back from space and landed it safely at this Florida location.
Where is Cape Canaveral?
Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan man in space, was not an astronaut but this similar kind of spaceman.
What is a cosmonaut?
In 1975 a Soviet spacecraft landed on this planet & sent back the first photographs from the surface; the craft soon melted.
What is Venus?
The Great Red Spot is there.
Where is Jupiter?
Named for the man who first observed them, the "Galilean satellites" are the 4 largest moons of this planet,
SpaceX plans to send two private passengers on a flight around the moon, the first manned venture into lunar orbit since this final 1972 Apollo mission.
What is Apollo 17?
In 2019 this "Heavy" SpaceX rocket launched a solar sail testing for space travel powered only by sunlight.
What is the Falcon Heavy?
The mission of this first Mars rover lasted 3 months in 1997 before communications were cut from Pathfinder.
What is Sojourner?
It has been under observation by the Cassini spacecraft since 2004.
What is Saturn?
Referring to its shape, the Milky Way is described as this type of galaxy.
What is a spiral?
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket has the thrust of 18,747 jumbo jets & delivers nearly 141,000 pounds of payload into orbit, second only to this legendary NASA rocket that boosted the Apollo missions into space.
What is Saturn V?
Many of the European space agency's launches happen at its spaceport in this South American territory.
What is French Guiana?
On April 12, 1961 this Russian, the first man in space, said the earth had a "beautiful blue halo."
Who is Gagarin?
The one originally named Georgium Sidus, after King George III.
What is Uranus?
A 1958 paper by Max Faget showed that a spacecraft could fire these to slow itself down & allow re-entry to the atmosphere.
What are retrorockets?
Instead of a conventional test payload, Falcon Heavy's first launch carried a Tesla roadster, piloted by a mannequin named this, the title of a David Bowie song about an extraterrestrial who's waiting in the sky.
What is Starman?