Space Race
This was the satellite that was was launched into orbit in 1957 and started the entire space race in the 1960's.
What is Спутник (Sputnik)?
This was the most breakthrough feature of the Space Shuttle when it first entered service in the early 1980s.
What is reusability?
This is what ISS stands for.
What is the International Space Station?
This is the name of the rocket that is going to be used for Artemis missions to the moon.
What is the Space Launch System (SLS)?
This is the name for the individual "sections" of a rocket launch vehicle. People like to think of them as several smaller rockets stacked on top of each other to form one larger rocket.
What are stages?
This was the first human in space.
Who is Юрий Гагарин (Yuri Gagarin)?
This was the only part of the Space Shuttle that was NOT reused.
What was the orange external tank (ET)?
Name any one of the spacecraft that has been used to ferry astronauts and cosmonauts to the ISS past or present.
Space Shuttle, SpaceX Crew Dragon, Boeing "Starliner", Soyuz
This is the name of the spacecraft that is going to take humans back to the moon on Artemis.
What is Orion?
Virtually all rockets are basically hollow tubes containing TWO tanks. This is what is stored in these two tanks.
What is fuel and an oxidizer?
This was apollo mission that landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the moon in 1969.
What was Apollo 11?
This is the type of rocket fuel the white side boosters on the Space Shuttle used.
What is solid rocket fuel?
These are the two main space agencies that began the ISS project.
What are NASA (USA) and ROSCOSMOS (Russia)?
This is the company that won the contract in 2021 for developing the next lunar lander to be used for Artemis moon landing missions.
BONUS 100 points if you can tell me the name of the spacecraft they plan on using for the lander.
What is SpaceX?
Bonus: What is Starship?
This is the closest point to the Earth on a particular orbit.
BONUS 100 points if you can also name the furthest point from the Earth on an object's orbit.
What is perigee?
Bonus: What is apogee?
This is the name of the massive rocket that was used for all the Apollo moon missions
What is Saturn V?
This is the number of Space Shuttle orbiters (the airplane looking part) that existed.
What is five? (Discovery, Atlantis, Challenger, Columbia, & Endeavor)
These are the other space agencies that have since joined the ISS.
What are ESA (Europe) and JAXA (Japan)?
This is the name of the space station that they plan to put into lunar orbit that will be used as the staging grounds for future moon landings.
What is Gateway?
This is the type of orbital transfer that has been used countless times to get from one celestial body to another and was the type of transfer used on all Apollo moon missions.
What is a Hohmann Transfer?
This was the last person to walk on the moon, leaving humankind's final footprints there in 1972.
Who is Gene Cernan?
This is the name of the rocket engine used on the Space Shuttle.
What are the RS-25 engines?
Name any two of the ISS habitable (pressurized) modules.
Zarya, Zvezda, Pirs, Poisk, Rassvet, Nauka, Unity, Columbus, Leonardo, Quest Airlock, Cupola, Tranquility, JEF, JLP, Kibo, Harmony, Destiny, BEAM
These are the parts of the SLS moon rocket that will be reusable.
What is nothing?
This is the type of burn when a rocket burns its engines in the opposite direction it's moving in order to lower its velocity in space.
BONUS 100 points if you can also name the type of burn when a rocket burns its engines in the same direction it's moving in order to increase its velocity.
What is a "retrograde"/"braking" burn?
Bonus: What is a "prograde" burn?