Planets
What is the closest planet to the sun?
Mercury
What does NASA stand for?
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration
What star is at the center of our solar system?
Sun
The first human who was launched into space is from what country?
USSR (Russia)
What year did Pluto lose it's planetary status?
2006
What is the coldest planet?
Uranus
What year was NASA founded?
1958
How much time does sun rays take to reach earth?
8 minutes
What year did Americans first land on the moon?
1969
High and low tides are caused by what?
Sun and moon's gravity
What is Earth's satellite?
The moon
Which NASA space flight was the last manned mission to the moon?
Apollo 17
The North Star (also know as Stella Polaris) is in what constellation?
The Little Dipper
What Indiana college/university did Neil Armstrong, one of the first astronaut's to land on the moon, attend?
Purdue
What has a gravitational pull so string that even light cannot escape it?
a black hole
What planets have rings around them?
Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune
Who were the first two American men to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
The moon orbits Earth every .... days
27.3 days
What were the first animals in space to successfully return? (hint: 2)
A monkey and a squirrel
How old is the universe? (plus or minus 1 billion years)
13.8 billion years old
How many moons are in our solar system? (plus or minus 10)
181
What does NASA's Office of Planetary Protection protect?
Life forms found on other planets
What is the distance between the sun and earth? (plus or minus 10 million miles)
92,960,000 miles
The longest single human spaceflight was how many days? (plus or minus 50)
438 (388 to 488)
How far can you hear in space?
YOU CAN'T, space is silent.