A rocket-launched spacecraft, able to land like an unpowered aircraft, used to make repeated journeys between the earth and earth orbit.
What is a Space Shuttle?
100
The natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.
What is Earth's Moon?
100
A fixed luminous point in the night sky that is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.
What is a Star?
100
The act or practice of looking at or studying the stars.
What is Stargazing?
100
NASA
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration
200
An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer.
What is a Telescope?
200
The physical universe beyond the earth's atmosphere.
What is Outer Space?
200
The star around which the earth orbits.
What is the Sun?
200
A number of meteors that appear to radiate from one point in the sky at a particular date each year, due to the earth's regularly passing through a field of particles at that position in its orbit.
What is a Meteor Shower?
200
IBM was heavily involved in the Apollo missions, providing computers for multiple ground locations including Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Houston, Texas, Mission Control Center.
What is IBM's role in NASA?
300
An artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.
What is a Satellite?
300
A small rocky body orbiting the sun.
What is an Asteroid?
300
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
What is a Constellation?
300
A small, rapidly moving meteor burning up on entering the earth's atmosphere.
What is a Shooting Star?
300
A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft.
What is an Astronaut?
400
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars.
What is the Mars Rover?
400
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure
What is a Constellation?
400
Has a stellar core remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. Is very dense: its mass is comparable to that of the Sun, while its volume is comparable to that of Earth.
What is a White Dwarf Star?
400
An eclipse in which the sun is obscured by the moon.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
400
An American worldwide volunteer-driven space-advocacy non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the human exploration and settlement of the planet Mars.
What is the Mars Society?
500
A space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990 and remains in operation and is one of the largest and most versatile.
What is the Hubble Telescope?
500
The collection of eight planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
What is the Solar System?
500
A star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass.
What is a Super Nova?
500
A region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape caused by the death of a star.
What is a Black Hole?
500
Air Force Space Command, sometimes referred to informally as U.S. Space Command.