Pershing Chpt 5 Exploring Space
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| What is ...the speed needed to break away from a planet's gravity? | escape volocity
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| Who...launched the first liquid-fuel rocket | Robert Goddard
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| What does NASA stand for? | National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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| What burns fuel and uses escaping gases to move | a rocket
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| What is ...the speed needed to travel around a planet? | orbital velocity
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| What is thrust? | the pushing or pulling force exerted by a rocket engine
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| Many of the US rocket scientists came from which country after WWII? | Germany
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| What does a rocket need to carry in order to burn fuel in the vacuum of outerspace? | oxygen
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| What is Newton's 3rd law of motion? | For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction
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| What is the Landsat? | an Earth-imaging satellite program
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| What is a human-made object placed in orbit? | artificial satellite
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| What is GEO? | (geostationary orbit) the orbit used for communications satellites
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| Name the first American satellite launched. | Explorer I
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| What are microwaves? | a type of radiation used to relay information
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| What is LEO? | (Low Earth Orbit) orbit used for making detailed images of Earth
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| What type of orbit would be best for a military spy satellite--LEO, GEO, weather balloon or parabolic orbit? | LEO
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| What do people use a GPS for? | to get information about their exact location
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| What allows us to study environmental changes on Earth? | satellite remote sensing
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| What cold, red planet may have been warmer millions of years ago? | Mars
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| Which planet was found to have surface temperatures that could melt lead? | Venus
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| What was Deep Space I designed to do? | use ion propulsion
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| What did Viking 1 and 2 do? | looked for signs of life on Mars and studied its soil
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| What Soviet probe studied Venus's rocks? | Venera 9
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| What did the Pioneer 10 and 11 do? | visited the outer planets and collected samples of the solar wind
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| What is Titan? | One of Saturn's moons with an atmosphere similar to early Earth's.
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| What was discovered by man-made space probes? | climate changes on Mars, water on Earth's moons, active volcanoes on Venus
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| Which space probe was designed for sampling comet dust? | Stardust
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| What did Apollo 11 bring back? | moon rocks to study
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| Name the first Soviet space station. | Salyut 1
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| Name the reusable space vehicle. | space shuttle
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| Who was the first person on the moon? | Neil Armstrong
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| What device is used to study heat from the space shuttles? | a heat sensitive hand-held camera
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| What is the space station? | a long-term orbiting platform
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| What is being constructed in LEO by 16 different countries? | the International Space Station
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| What might be constructed on the moon? | a base for exploring the rest of the solar system
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