Space Exploration Review

What is a machine that uses escaping to move?

• space shuttle

• probe

• satellite

• rocket

The Russian high school teacher that proposed that machines called "rockets" could take people to outer space was....

• Neil Armstrong

• Buzz Aldrin

• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

• Alfred Wegener

Why must rocket's launches be so powerful or why must the propulsion of the launch be so great?

• gravity

• orbital and escape velocity

• speed

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What country launched the world's first satellite in 1957?

• Russia

• United States

• China

• Japan

NASA stands for

• National Air Space Administration

• North American Space Administration

• National Aeronautics Science Administration

• National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Any human-made object placed in orbit around a body in space is a(n)........

• natural satellite

• probe

• artificial satellite

• rocket

What was the first artificial satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957?

• Challenger

• Sputnik 1

• Explorer 1

• STS-135

An unmanned vehicle that carries scientific instruments to planets or other bodies in space.

• space probe

• satellite

• space shuttle

• rocket

An optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and brighter by use of a combinatination of lenses and curved mirrors.

• space shuttle

• telescope

• rocket

• satellite

Built the first telescope.

• Alfred Wegener

• Neil Armstrong

• Galileo Galilei

• Konstantin Tsiolkovsky