Astronomy and Space Flashcards
First space walk
Alexei Leonov
First communications satellite
Echo I
Closest star
Proxima Centauri
The Earth’s magnetic belt
Van Allen belt
Solar magnetic storms with 11-year cycles
Sun spots
The ringed planet
Saturn
Saturn’s orbital period
29 years
Pathfinder’s mobile rover
Sojourner
The sun’s “breeze”
Solar wind
Apollo 13 commander
James Lovell
U.S. space station
Skylab
Comet that returns every 76 years
Halley’s comet
Polish astronomer
Copernicus
Galilean moons
Io, Europa, Calysto and Ganymede
First weather satellite
Tiros
Pluto’s moon
Charon
Probe to Uranus
Voyager II
Third American in space (three orbits)
John Glenn
Stars known as “seven sisters”
Pleiades
Second American in space (suborbital)
Gus Grissom
First space shuttle crew
Young and Crippen
Second man to walk on the moon
Buzz Aldrin
Oldest U.S. astronaut, launched in 1998
John Glenn (77 yrs. Old)
English astronomer royal
Sir Edmund Halley
Italian astronomer
Galileo (Galilei)
First woman in space
Valentina Tereshkova
The “Greenhouse effect” planet
Venus
North star or pole star
Polaris
German astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Probe to Neptune
Voyager II
Comet that struck Jupiter in 1994
Shoemaker-Levy 9
Probe to Venus
Venera (Russian)
American astronomer
Edwin Hubble
Largest volcano in solar system
Mars’ Olympus Mons
1983 book chronicling the U.S. Space program
The Right Stuff
Mars’ orbital period
1.9 years
The sun’s halo
Corona
Milky Way’s satellite galaxies
Large and Small Magellanic Cloud