Space Exploration

reusuable spacecraft that transports people and materials to and from space

• shuttle

• satellite

• orbiter

• lander

series of missions designed to send people to the moon and back

• Apollo

• Mercury

• Gemini

• Artemis

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the second human spaceflight program with the objective to develop space travel to support Apollo

• Gemini

• Mercury

• Artemis

• Apollo

the first human spaceflight program of the US

• Gemini

• Mercury

• Artemis

• Apollo

referring to the moon

• lunar

• solar

• moonar

• looney

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space probes that travel past their destinations

• flyby

• lander

• orbiter

• rover

space probes which touch down on the surface

• flyby

• lander

• orbiter

• revolver

space probes which revolve around the object

• flyby

• lander

• orbiter

• rover

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government organization that oversees all space missions started in 1958

• NASA

• CIA

• FBI

• Homeland Security

small object, manmade or natural, that obits a larger object

• satellite

• moon

• Sputnik

• Explorer

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