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First space walk

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Alexei Leonov

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First communications satellite

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Echo I

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Closest star

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Proxima Centauri

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The Earth’s magnetic belt

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Van Allen belt

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Solar magnetic storms with 11-year cycles

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Sun spots

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The ringed planet

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Saturn

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Saturn’s orbital period

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29 years

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Pathfinder’s mobile rover

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Sojourner

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The sun’s “breeze”

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Solar wind

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Apollo 13 commander

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James Lovell

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U.S. space station

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Skylab

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Comet that returns every 76 years

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Halley’s comet

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Polish astronomer

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Copernicus

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Galilean moons

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Io, Europa, Calysto and Ganymede

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First weather satellite

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Tiros

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Pluto’s moon

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Charon

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Probe to Uranus

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Voyager II

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Third American in space (three orbits)

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John Glenn

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Stars known as “seven sisters”

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Pleiades

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Second American in space (suborbital)

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Gus Grissom

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First space shuttle crew

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Young and Crippen

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Second man to walk on the moon

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Buzz Aldrin

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Oldest U.S. astronaut, launched in 1998

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John Glenn (77 yrs. Old)

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English astronomer royal

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Sir Edmund Halley

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Italian astronomer
Galileo (Galilei)
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First woman in space
Valentina Tereshkova
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The "Greenhouse effect" planet
Venus
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North star or pole star
Polaris
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German astronomer
Johannes Kepler
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Probe to Neptune
Voyager II
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Comet that struck Jupiter in 1994
Shoemaker-Levy 9
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Probe to Venus
Venera (Russian)
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American astronomer
Edwin Hubble
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Largest volcano in solar system
Mars' Olympus Mons
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1983 book chronicling the U.S. Space program
_The Right Stuff_
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Mars' orbital period
1.9 years
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The sun's halo
Corona
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Milky Way's satellite galaxies
Large and Small Magellanic Cloud
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The only planet not named after mythological figure
Earth
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French astronomer family
Cassini
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First American woman to walk in space
Kathryn Sullivan
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One-person U.S. space program
Mercury
43
Largest known asteroid
Ceres
44
Venus' orbital period
225 days
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Planet closest to sun, with no moons.
Mercury
46
American female astronomer
Maria Mitchell
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First man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
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Three-person U.S. space program
Apollo
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Russian space station
Mir ("peace" in Russian)
50
First telecommunications satellite
Telstar
51
Neptune's discoverer
Johann Galle, 1856
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Comet visible for several months in 1996
Hale-Bopp
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English astronomer family
Herschel
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First female space shuttle commander
Eileen Collins
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Danish astronomer
Tycho Brahe
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Lunar probe
Surveyor
57
Man who played golf on the moon
Alan Shepard
58
First man in space
Yuri Gagarin
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Space Shuttle names
Enterprise (atmospheric tests only), Columbia, Challenger, Atlantis, Discovery, Endeavor
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First American in space (suborbital)
Alan Shepard
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The smallest planet
Pluto
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First American to walk in space
Edward White
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Theory of the expanding universe
Big Bang theory
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The second smallest planet
Mercury
65
The red planet
Mars
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"Equine" nebula
Horse head nebula
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Nebula named for sea creature
Crab nebula
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"Dog Star", brightest star in sky
Sirius
69
Probes to Jupiter
Voyager I & II, Galileo
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Galactic cloud of dust and gas
Nebula
71
Apollo 11 landing module
Eagle
72
Mercury's oribital period
88 days
73
The blue planet (not earth)
Neptune
74
Two-person U.S. space program
Gemini
75
Belt between Mars and Jupiter
Asteroid belt (possibly a destroyed planet)
76
Jupiter's orbital period
12 years
77
Mars' moons
Phobos (larger) and Demos (smaller)
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First American woman in space
Sally Ride
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Greek astronomer (2nd century)
Ptolemy
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The largest planet (larger than all others put together)
Jupiter
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Uranus' discoverer
William Herschel, 1781
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First man-made object to leave the solar system
Pioneer 10
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Pluto's discoverer
Clyde Taumbaugh
84
Moons of Neptune
Triton, Neried, others
85
Neptune's orbital period
165 years
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Highly touted comet that fizzled in 1973
Comet Kahoutek
87
First U.S. satellite
Explorer I
88
Saturn moon with mysterious atmosphere
Titan
89
Mars probes
Ranger, Pathfinder, Viking
90
Probes to Saturn
Voyager I & II, Cassini
91
Uranus moons names charecterized by what?
name after Shakesperean characters
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First satellite, 1957
Sputnik
93
Closest major galaxy
Andromeda
94
Pluto's orbital period
248 years
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Uranus' orbital period
84 years

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