Vocabulary and Space Exploration Quiz

What does the word "manhandled" mean?

• reawakened

• physically mistreated

• cost

• force of movement

What is "The Right Stuff"?

• a type of spacecraft

• a university in Massachusetts

• a 1983 movie about the first seven American astronauts

• a type of camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope

Who is John Glenn?

• one of the first seven American astronauts

• a type of spacecraft

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

What does "rekindled" mean?

• cost

• reawakened

• power; ability

• a chamber astronauts must pass through

What is a "graduate school"?

• a type of spacecraft

• a school for post-college study

• a university in Massachusetts

• a type of camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope

What is MIT known for?

• overseeing the space program

• teaching science and engineering

• a type of spacecraft

• a space telescope

What does NASA oversee?

• the space program

• a type of spacecraft

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

What is a "space shuttle"?

• a type of spacecraft used by NASA from 1981 to 2011

• a type of camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?

• a type of spacecraft

• a space telescope that orbits the earth

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study

What is a "spectrograph"?

• a type of spacecraft

• a type of camera attached to the Hubble Space Telescope

• a university in Massachusetts

• a school for post-college study