Over the Moon
He was the first man to set foot on the moon.
Neil Armstrong
How many astronauts have been to Mars?
Zero
This 1898 book describes a Martian Invasion.
War of the Worlds
This half-Vulcan served on the Enterprise in the 1960s TV series, Star Trek.
Spock
When the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, it is known as a ____________ _____________ .
Solar Eclipse
The dark patches on the moon are called what?
Mares
Mars is the ____ planet from the Sun.
Fourth
This author wrote From the Earth to the Moon in 1865.
Jules Verne
Star Wars (the first movie) begins over this planet.
Tatooine
It is suggested that even light cannot escape the gravitational pull of this.
Black Hole
The very bright lines leading away from craters are called what?
Rays
It takes a radio signal 5 to ____ minutes to reach Mars from Earth.
20
Dune takes place on what fictional desert planet?
Arrakis
Sigourney Weaver played the lone survivor of this 1979 Sci-Fi horror film.
Alien
The distance between the Earth and the Sun is known as one ___________ __________.
Astronomical Unit
Tycho Crater is considered 'young' by scientists. How old do they think it is?
108 million years.
Mars has 2 moons. Name them.
Phobos and Deimos
In 2001: A Space Odyssey, this computer famously goes on a murder spree.
Hal or Hal 9000
He reportedly panicked many Americans with his radio adaption of War of the Worlds in 1938.
Orson Welles
The temperatures of this orbiting habitat can range from 250 degrees F in the sun to -250 degrees in the shade.
International Space Station
What is the distance between the Earth and the Moon?
250,000 miles
On June 15, 2022, NASA announced the Mars Rover, Perseverance, had found what?
Human trash
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Earth is destroyed for what reason?
to make way for an intergalactic freeway.
In the movie WALL-E, what is the name of the spaceship that carried the humans away from Earth?
Axiom
Bordering our own galaxy is a distinct area of nothingness, known as the ________ _________.
Local Void