Rocket Companies
This American space agency is the most successful space agency of all time
What is NASA?
This is the most visited planet (other than Earth).
What is, Mars?
These are celestial bodies that orbit a star but haven't "cleared the neighborhood" around them and are downgraded to this classification.
What are Dwarf Planets?
This was the first space probe put into space.
What is Sputnik?
This is the name of the force that propels rockets upward, coming from its engines.
What is Thrust?
This company founded by Elon Musk flies the Falcon 9 Rocket and the dragon space capsule
What is SpaceX?
This Jovian planet was knocked off axis by an asteroid and now rotates vertically.
What is Uranus?
This is found at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy and have a gravitational pull so great, nothing can escape it
What are Black holes?
This Soviet Cosmonaut was the first person to be launched into space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This type of rocket fuel comes as one large grain and is cheaper and most commonly used in hobby (model) rocketry.
What is solid fuel?
This federally funded research center based in southern California is responsible for many NASA missions such as Curiosity, Perseverance, and Europa Clipper
What is JPL?
Europa, a moon of this planet, is theorized to have liquid water under its crust of ice.
What is Jupiter
This is not the dust tail, but the other tail following behind a comet that is mostly invisible to us and pointed away from the Sun.
What is the Ion/Gas tail?
These were the first animals launched into space
What are Fruit Flies?
This is the most common fuel type used in larger rockets like the Saturn V and N-1
What is liquid fuel?
This company is most known for producing airplanes and most recently launched the Starliner Capsule to the ISS.
What is Boeing?
This planet has a density low enough that it could theoretically "float" on water
What is Saturn?
This is the name for the cloud of dust and gas that forms from dead stars and also creates new ones.
What are nebula?
This was the first woman to ever visit space and was also the first person to ever have a mission patch.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
This rocket part, similar to the wings of an airplane, and also found on aquatic creatures is responsible for keeping the rocket straight during its flight.
What are fins?
This company based in Kent Washington flies more environmentally friendly rockets such as New Glenn and New Shepard.
What is Blue Origin?
This dwarf planet is the only planet found within the Asteroid Belt.
What is Ceres?
This icy body develops a glowing coma and tail as it approaches the Sun.
What is a comet?
This scientist is widely considered as the "father of modern rocketry" and was once a German scientist that was brought to America to start NASA.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
This technique drops spent fuel tanks and unneeded engines to decrease weight and increase efficiency of a rocket.
What is Staging?