Planets
The largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This moon occurs when the moon is positioned between the earth and the sun.
What is a new moon?
This many easily seen stars compose the Big Dipper.
What are the 7 stars?
The placement of this on the moon was very significant because it showed team effort and a major symbol for advancement in engineering.
What was the American Flag?
According to the movie Apollo 13, this person was the original commander of Apollo 13.
Who was Alan Shephard?
These planets are known as the ice giants in the solar system.
What is Uranus and Neptune?
When the moon blocks the sun or part of it it is called this.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
This is the brightest star that can been in Earth's night sky.
What is the Sirius star?
This was one of the reasons behind the Challenger Disaster.
What was the breaking apart of the shuttle due to gases in the external fuel tank?
In the film Living in Space, NASA plans to restore this by sending new technology into space.
What is a Lunar presence?
This planet in our solar system is covered with craters.
What is Mercury?
When the wheel is set to the date June 17th, the moon will be in this phase.
The moon will be in Third quarter.
This is how new stars are born into the solar system.
What is clouds of gas and dust?
The acronym ISS stands for this in astronomy.
What is the International Space System?
As mentioned in Apollo 13, the term LM stands for this.
What is a Lunar Module?
There are currently four moons orbiting around this planet.
What is Jupiter?
Waxing means light is building up on the right side of the moon from waxing crescent to waxing gibbous. But this phase comes after Waxing Gibbous.
What is a full moon?
The early stars were primarily made up of this element.
What is Hydrogen?
It was important for NASA to have experienced astronauts working on this repair mission because this mission involved intense and advanced coordination between different space centers across the country.
What was the Hubble Repair mission?
As mentioned in the video Living in Space, we are going to return to the moon in this year.
What is the year 2024?
It takes 165 Earth days for this planet to revolve around the sun once.
What is Neptune?
This is what we call the Full Moon between Mid September to Mid October.
What is the Harvest moon?
To create the heavier elements like chromium and zinc and gold and platinum, the universe conjured up massive exploding stars that are called this.
What is Supernova?
This is the Russian word for "Union" that was often used as an internal abbreviation for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics during the period of that countries existence. This word meant the Russian space vehicles.
What does "Soyuz" mean?
These are some challenges astronauts should ben prepared for when traveling into space.
What are issues with sleeping, changes in the immune system and eyesight can become blurry if ins pace for too long.