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Who was the first to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens
Galileo
Who discovered that white light is made up of many colors?
Newton
reflection
What is any object that orbits a larger object?
satellite
What kind of satellite would relay a phone call from America to Australia?
communication
Who was the astronautical engineer who helped make the United States the leader in space exploriation?
von Braun
Who was the first human being to set foot on the moon?
Armstrong
Light travels this many miles per second
186,000
what is an unmanned spacecraft launched specifically to explore the unknown?
space probe
What are rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves?
pulsars
Who was America's first person in space?
Shepard
Who was the first man to travel in space?
Gagarin
What consists of a vibrating electric field and a magnetic field
electromagnetic waves
What kind of satellite would a meteorologist use to learn of a coming hurricane?
weather
What is a device that splits light into a a spectrum for analysis?
spectroscope
Who was the first American to orbit the earth?
Glenn
Who am known as the Father of Modern Rocketry?
Goddard
frequency
astronauts
Is Mars an inner or outer language?
inner
Who developed the reflecting telescope?
Newton
Who discovered the planet Uranus?
Herschel
What is any back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same pattern?
oscillation
What is a device used to make distant objects appear clearer and closer?
telescope
What orbit allows a satellite to remain in the same spot above the earth at all times?
geostationary