The Solar System
What is our Sun?
What is a star.
The Universe is defined as what?
What is all of space and everything in it.
What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit earth?
What is Sputnik?
What does NASA stand for?
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
What is the purpose of a Flyby spacecraft? Not what it has conducted.
What is to follow a continuous solar orbit or escape trajectory, never to be captured into a planetary orbit.
How far is 1 light year?
What is 6 Trillion Miles.
Cosmetology is the term we use for the way we conceptualize and study the universe.
What is False.
How much time did it take Sputnik to orbit Earth?
What is 96 minutes?
The United States Space Force was established in what year?
What is 2019.
What is an example of a orbiter spacecraft that we talked about in class?
What is the Magellan Venus Orbiter.
How far away is our Sun from the Earth?
What is 93 million miles.
What is the missing dwarf planet in the order from the sun?
Sun - Ceres - Pluto - - Makemake - Eris
What is Haumea.
What was the name of the Russian scientist who played a large role in the creation of the Rocket?
Who is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.
What space agency is home to the nation's largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology?
What is the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
What is the key objective of a Lander spacecraft during the entire mission? Not what does a Lander spacecraft do.
What is survive the trip there, landing, operating, and send data back to earth.
True or False
Saturn is more massive than all of the other planets combined.
What is False.
How long does it take our solar system to orbit the entire Milky Way?
What is 240 million years.
What are three examples of the different types of pressure that goes into Rocketry that we talked about?
What is air, internal, outside, and ambient.
What is self-guided tractors.
What is the example of an observatory spacecraft we talked about in class?
What is the Hubble Space Telescope.
What mission allowed scientists to discover what Venus actually looks like?
What is the Magellan Mission.
What is a real term that describes what happens when matter gets too close to a black hole?
What is spaghettification.
True or False
The mass of a rocket is able to stay consistent during flight due to the aeronautics and engineering behind the design shape.
What is false.
What are three space agencies we talked about in class?
What is NASA, US Space Force, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, National Reconnaissance Office, and Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
How long does it take for the International Space Station to orbit earth once?
What is 90 minutes.