Rocketry
This physical law enables rockets to accelerate.
What is Newtons third law?
This person was the first man to step foot on the moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
This object is a cloud of hydrogen and helium creates energy through nuclear fusion.
What is a star?
These two spacecraft are the United States' replacements to the Space Shuttle.
What are Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon?
Often referred to as the "speed limit" of the universe.
What is the speed of light?
This German ballistic missile was the world's first operational rocket.
What was the V2?
The Russian was the first man in space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This object's gravitational pull is so strong, even light cannot escape it.
What is a black hole?
This spacecraft was the first vehicle to carry crew into space.
What was Vostok 1?
This cosmic event is considered the origin of the universe.
What was the Big Bang?
This rocket is the worlds most used launch vehicle, launching over 1700 times.
What is Soyuz?
This woman was the first woman in space.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
This object is a large cloud of gas and uncoalesced matter.
What is a Nebulae?
This spacecraft was launched in April 1990 and provided images of space clear of atmospheric disturbances.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Near massive objects such as black holes, this phenomenon can cause time to appear to slow down compared to observers farther away.
What is time dilation?
This rocket was the first to repulsively land.
What is Blue Origins New Shepard?
He was the Commander of the Apollo 13 mission.
Who was Jim Lovell?
This enormous celestial object will collide with our galaxy in roughly 4.5 billion years.
What is the Andromeda galaxy?
This spacecraft was the first continuously inhabited long-term research station in orbit and until 2010 held the record for the longest continuous human presence in space at 3,644 days.
What was the MIR space station?
This theory places the Sun as the center of the universe
What is heliocentric?
While never successful, this rocket held the record for decades as the most powerful rocket to ever fly.
What is the N1?
This man was the first private citizen to visit space.
Who was Dennis Tito?
This celestial object has such a low density, it could float on water.
What is Saturn?
This planet was the intended target for this spacecraft that crashed into the Indian ocean last week after 48 years.
What is Venus?
This theory states that massive objects cause space to bend. The larger the object, the more it bends.
What is Einstein's General Theory of Relativity?