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Telescopes
Light
Rocket
Space Exploration
Newton's Laws
100
Telescope that uses both mirrors and lenses.
What is a catadioptric telescope?
100
Breaks down light into its component colors.
What is a spectrometer?
100
Force pushing a rocket.
What is the thrust?
100
A space craft that can be used multiple times.
What is a space shuttle?
100
Explained how rockets work.
What are Newton's laws?
200
Causes telescopes on Earth to get not as good pictures as telescopes in Earth's orbit.
What is Earth's atmosphere?
200
The speed electromagnetic waves travel at.
What is the speed of light?
200
First came up with the idea of using liquid fuel?
Who is Konstantin Tsiolkovsky?
200
Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor.
What are the five space shuttles the US made?
200
an object in motion will remain in motion unless acted upon by a net force
What is newtons first law
300
First used a telescope to look into space.
Who was Galileo Galilee?
300
5.9 trillion miles/9.5 trillion kilometers.
What is a light-year?
300
Built the first liquid fueled rocket.
Who was Hermann Oberth?
300
The first space station.
What is Salyut 1?
300
Force equal mass mulitplied by accerleration
What is newton second law
400
Built the first refracting telescope
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
Light that can be seen.
What is visible light?
400
The first person to come up with the idea of using multiple stages.
Who was Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
400
A space station that was brought up into Earth's orbit in different pieces and put together up there.
What is a modular space station?
400
to every action, there is an equal opposite reaction
What is newtons third law
500
A not optical telescope that looks a lot like a satelite dish.
What is a radio telescope?
500
Can be used to find out what kinds of elements are in a star, and how far away it is.
What is the spectrum of a star?
500
Designed a system for cooling the gasses escaping from the rocket.
Who was Robert Goddard?
500
The two space shuttles that had issues that killed their whole crew.
What is Challenger and Columbia?
500
Pushes a rocket forward in the vacuum of space.
What is gas coming out of the rocket?