Exploring Space Flashcards
A large artificial satellite on which people can live is called a…
Space station
The force that propels a rocket forward
Thrust
T or F: The first American to orbit Earth was Alan Shepard
False
Rockets were first developed in what country
China
The space race was between which two countries
United States and the Soviet Union
T or F: In a solid fuel rocket both oxygen and if you are in liquid form
False
True or false: escape velocity is the velocity a rocket must reach to fly beyond the planets gravitational pull
True
True or false: observation satellites collect data using remote sensing
True
Who was the first person in space?
Yuri Gagarin
True or false: a space probe is a spacecraft that has no human crew
True
To push something forward in a given direction
Propel
The velocity a rocket must achieve to establish an orbit around a body in space
Orbital velocity
Which kind of spacecraft can carry satellite in orbit?
Space shuttle
Some space probes have small robots called ——- that collect samples from another planet
Rovers
What is the main advantage of a multistage rocket?
The total weight of the rocket is reduced as the rocket rises
Speed in a given direction
Velocity
Humans first landed on the moon in what year?
1969
The velocity an object must reach to fly beyond a planets or moons gravitational pull
Escape velocity
An object that revolves around another object in space
Satellite
A spacecraft that can carry a crew in the space, return to earth, and then be reused for the same purpose
Space shuttle
A large artificial satellite on which people can live and work for long periods of time
Space station
An item that has uses on earth but was designed for use in space
Space spinoff
The spacecraft that has various scientific instruments that can collect data, including visual images, but has no human crew.
Space probe
A place that is empty of all matter
Vacuum
The condition of experiencing weightlessness in space
Microgravity
The collection of information about earth and other objects in space using satellites or probes
Remote sensing
In orbit in which a satellite orbiting earth at the same rate earth rotates and the stays in the same place all of the time
Geostationary orbit
I device that expels gas in one direction to move in the opposite direction
Rocket
