Space Transport
Living in Space
Applications
100
This is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space.
What is Sputnik?
100
These are some of the hazards involved with space travel.
What is vacuum of space, solar radiation, meteoroid collision, psychological problems, microgravity?
100
The information from satellites is used for this.
What is communications, navigation, research, or weather forecasting?
200
This refers to the materials needed for space flight, including crew cabins, food, water, air, and people.
What is the payload?
200
These are some of the side effects of weightlessness on the body.
What is bones expanding & losing calcium, weakening muscles including the heart, and vision changes?
200
Satellites such as LANDSAT and RADARSAT are used for these purposes.
What are tracking ships, monitoring soil quality, reporting environmental damage, and searching for resources?
300
This is the fundamental law of physics that rocketry relies on.
What is "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"?
300
The ISS must provide this for astronauts.
What is clean water, breathable air, and comfortable temperatures and pressures?
300
This is one application of space technology being adapted for use on Earth.
Answers may vary.
400
These are the three main types of space craft in use today.
What are space shuttles/rockets, space probes, and space stations?
400
The ISS recycles almost 100% of the water in the station. To produce oxygen for astronauts to breath it uses this process.
What is electrolysis?
400
This is when a satellite stays in one position above Earth.
What is a geosynchronous orbit?
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