Name That Planet
The third planet from the sun
What is Earth?
Name the process to navigate space
What is celestial navigation
The first animal sent into space in 1957 was a
Who was Laika the dog
Smartphones use satellites in space to tell exactly where you are on the Earth
True
The rate at which light travels form the sun
What is the Speed of light
the closest planet to the sun and has the fast orbit
Mercury or Saturn
What is Mercury
What is a launch window
What is the time when a rocket must launch to successfully reach its destination
Neil Armstrong’s famous words upon stepping onto the Moon were: “That’s one _____ step for man, one giant for _____ mankind.
small and leap
Earth’s most spectacular light shows are the Northern Lights (Aurora borealis)
Ture
Fourth Planet from the Sun
What is Mars
Made up of hydrogen and helium, has 95 moons, and has the shortest day but longest year.
Jupiter or Saturn or Venus
What is Jupiter
Name an obstacle in space a rocket would encounter during flight
extreme temperatures, radiation, space storms/winds, gravity differences, and orbital debris
This many astronauts have walked on the Moon between 1969 and 1972
15 or 12 or 30
What is 3 x 4 (12)
Saturn’s rings are slippery, which is why no spaceship has ever landed on them
False
The Fifth Planet from Earth, Eighth Planet from the Sun
What is Neptune
Hottest Planet, has no moon, often called Earth's sister due to being Earth's neighbor
Venus or Mercury
What is Venus
A rocket is a machine that launches into space by pushing hot _____ _____ to go up.
Gases and down
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon in this year
1975 or 1969 or 1959
What is 1969 (also the year my mom was born)
Mars has 3 oceans
Ture or False
False
In space this device/tool to help you find North would not work well for navigation
What is a compass
A planet made of a carbon dioxide atmosphere where a day is slightly longer than earth but a year is twice as long
What is Mars
Rockets move by Newton’s Third Law: for every ______, there is an equal and opposite ______
What is action and reaction
NASA astronauts launched from the U.S. for the first time since 2011 in this year
2015 or 2020 or 2023
Why 2020 why
satellite images of the western part of Australia help us see the spread of massive wildfires
What is Truth
Astronaut Jim Lovell used these bright objects in space to tell where his spacecraft was
What are bright stars and constellations