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Astronomy Test
Question | Answer |
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Space Probe | Scientific instrument that can collect data. |
Rover | Small space probe that can move around the surface of a planet of the moon |
Satellite | an object that revolves around another object in space |
Rocket | Small Space Probe that can move |
Velocity | Speed in a givin direction |
Freedom 7 | Part of the U.S. Mercury Space Program |
Buzz Aldrin | The second person to walk on the Moon |
Alan Shepard | in 1961 became the second person, and the first American, to travel into space. |
John Glenn | First American to orbit Earth |
Sputnik I | The first artificial satellite |
Apollo II | Circled moon July 1966 |
Neil Armstrong | The frist person to walk on the Moons surface |
China | Rocket technology originated in China |
Soviet Union | The Greatest rival to the United States in polotics and military power |
Space Shuttle | Space craft that can carry a crew, and return the cres and be reused |
Thrust | Reaction forct that propels an object into orbit |
vacuum | Space that is empty of all matter |
Space Station | Artificial Satellite where people can live and work for a long period of time |
What did you learn about rocket design from the rocket lab | less the design the higher it will go |