Rockets
A device that expels gas in one direction to move in the opposite direction.
What is a rocket?
What is any object that revolves around another object in space is called?
What is a Satellite?
What tasks have NASA Space Shuttles performed?
Deliver satellites, repairing satellites, carrying astronauts and equipment to and from space stations.
Near vacuum, temperature extremes, and microgravity.
How do conditions on earth different from those in space?
Rocket Technology originated in _________.
What is China?
What was the name of the first satellite launched into space in 1957?
What is Sputnik?
Space station
What is a place where long-term observations and experiments can be carried out in space?
Consumer products, new materials, medical devices, and communications satellites.
What has the space program developed that affect may aspects of modern society?
This type of rocket is beneficial because the total weight of the rocket is greatly reduced as it rises.
What is a Multistage Rocket?
What was the name of the American effort to land astronauts on the moon?
What is the Apollo Program?
SPace Probes
What is a power system to produce electricity, a communication system, and scientific instruments to collect data?
Used for communications and collecting weather data and other scientific data.
What are Satellites?
To fly beyond a planet's gravitational pull, a space craft must reach....
What is escape velocity?
A satellite that stays over the same place on Earth all the time.
What is Geosynchronous Orbit?
Rover
The higher a satellite's altitude, the longer its orbital period.
What is the relationship between satellite altitude and the time needed to complete one orbit?
A spacecraft that can carry a crew into space, return to Earth, and then be reused for the same purpose is a....
How is orbital velocity different from escape velocity?
What is Orbital Velocity is needed to establish orbit? What is escape velocity is what a rocket must reach to fly beyond a planet's gravitational pull?
What did Neil Armstrong Say when he first set foot on the moon?
What is "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."?
Third planet from the sun
What is Earth?