Orbiting the Sun
Spherically shaped objects that have a mass larger than the total of other objects
Planets
What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space, thus starting the space race?
Sputnik 1
Who was the 1st man to space and what country did he represent
Yuri
What is the organization created and still existent today to focus on space Exploration?
NASA
Sally Ride
Give an example
Dwarf planet
Pluto
What space launched a dog into space?
Sputnik 2
Who was the 1st woman in space and where was she from?
Valentina Tereshkova
What measures the distance between celestial objects?
Astronomical units
Who said "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" when landing on the moon for the 1st time
Neil Armstrong
Millions of small, rocky objects that orbit the sun in an asteroid belt, range in size from less than 1 meter to several hundred km.
Asteroid
What was the name of the missions that went to the moon?
Apollo
Who was the 1st African American woman in space?
Mae Jemison
What is the estimated age of OUR solar system?
4.6 billion years
What was the name of the tragic event that happened on national television in 1986?
Challenger explosion
This had the 1st teacher to go to space
Made of gas, dust and ice and moves around the sun in an oval-shaped orbit
Comet
What was the name of the 1st American space station sent to space?
Skylab
Who was the 1st American to orbit earth?
John Glenn
What was the name of the 1st solar system model, it came before the heliocentric model?
Geocentric
What invention was launched into space to make observations farther than man can explore in 1990?
Hubble Space Telescope
Debris left by colliding asteroids and dispersing comets
meteoroid
Who is the 1st private company to go to launch and return a space craft?
Space X
Who is known as the father of rocketing or modern rocket propulsion?
Robert Goddard
What 2 people are credited with creating the heliocentric model of the universe?
Galileo and Copernicus
Who was the 1st tourist in space?
Dennis Tito
He paid Russia