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This man discovered that light is made up of many different colors called the visible spectrum.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
This country was the first to send an artificial object, a dog, and a person up into space.
Who is Russia?
This is the name of any object that orbits a larger object.
What is a satellite?
This is the term we use when light is being broken.
What is refraction?
This is the planet closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This is the man known as the "Father of Modern Rocketry."
Who is Robert H. Goddard?
This man became the first American in space with a 15 minute flight.
Who is Alan Shepard?
This is the space station being developed by a group of several nations.
What is the International Space Station?
This is the movement of energy from one place to another.
What is a wave?
This planet is tipped on its side.
What is Uranus?
This was the man to first make extensive use of the telescope for studying the heavens.
Who is Galileo?
This was the first female to fly in space.
Who is Valentina Tereshova?
This was the United States first space station.
What is Skylab?
Light travels at this speed.
What is 186,000 miles per second?
This is the planet with winds over 1,200 mph.
What is Neptune?
With this man's help, the United States became the world leader in space exploration.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
This was the name of the Apollo lunar lander that set the first astronauts on the moon's surface.
What is the Eagle?
This was an older Russian space station that was burnt up in the atmosphere.
What is Mir?
This is the term we give to anything that carries a wave...something that light does not need.
What is a medium?
This planet is often called the morning or evening star.
What is Venus?
This man discovered that light is really made up of an electromagnetic wave.
Who is James Clerk Maxwell?
Neil Armstrong was the first man to step on the moon. There was another astronaut that walked on the moon with him.
Who is "Buzz" Aldrin?
This was the first artificial object to ever be put into space.
What is Sputnik 1?
List the colors of the visible spectrum in order.
What is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet?
This is the largest moon in the solar system.
What is Ganymede?