People of Astronomy
I was the first to make extensive use of telescopes to study the heavens.
Who is Galileo.
The first U.S. satellite.
What is Skylab?
This is the turning back or turning aside of any wave.
What is reflection?
The planet tipped on its side.
What is Uranus?
The movement of energy from one place to another.
What is a wave?
I was America’s first person in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
The first artificial object ever put into space.
What is Sputnik I?
An unmanned spacecraft launched to explore the unknown.
What is a space probe?
The planet known for its rings.
What is Saturn?
The high point of a wave?
What is crest?
I was the first human being to set foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The first spacecraft designed to be reused.
What is the space shuttle?
A device that split light into a spectrum for analysis.
What is a spectroscope?
The largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The low point of a wave.
What is trough?
I am known as the “Father of Modern Rocketry.”
Who is Robert Goddard?
The first spacecraft designed for modules to be added.
What is Mir?
Rotating stars that emit directional beams of radio waves.
What are pulsars?
The planet with windspeeds of over 1,200 mph.
What is Neptune?
Whatever carries a wave.
What is wave medium?
I was the first American to orbit the earth.
Who is John Glenn?
Placed into orbit by a space shuttle to aid astronomers in their studies of the heavens.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
How fast a wave oscillates.
What is frequency?
The planet which appears to be a beautiful royal blue.
What is Neptune?
A single rise or depression in a wave.
What is pulse?