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| Which country is beleived to have built the first rockets? |
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| What guidance system did Hale's rockets use? |
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| What does "The rocket's red glare" refer to? |
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| What fuel did Robert Goddard use? |
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| gasoline and liquid oxygen |
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| A satellite returning to Earth's orbit must do what to stay in orbit? |
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| What is GPS system used for? |
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| What does the term geostationary mean? |
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| not moving with respect to the earth |
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| What does the term synchronous mean? |
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| a satellite that orbits once each day and remains geostationary |
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| the orbit that passes over the earth's poles, usually a weather satellite |
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| an environmental vertical probe |
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| The first man to orbit the earth |
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| The space program that tested procedures needed to put a man on the moon |
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| When did man first land on the moon? |
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| Which of the following was not a space station? |
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| Mir, Columbia, Salyut, or Skylab |
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| What was Isaac Newton's third law of motion? |
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| For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. |
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| What are objects in orbit called? |
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| What typed of space vehicle does not travel in an orbit? |
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| The European probe which came close to Halley's comet |
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| Which part of Apollo returned to earth? |
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| What was the name of the first Apollo flight to land on the moon? |
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| Who was the first American woman in space? |
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| Sally Ride aboard the Challenger |
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| the space shuttle that was destroyed during liftoff |
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| What did Explorer 1 contribute to man's knowledge of the earth? |
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| it discovered a band of charged particles trapped by the earth's magnetic field, the Van Allen belt |
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| What type of space vehicles are reusable? |
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| The first United Satellite |
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| The probe that studied Jupiter |
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| The first probe to fly by the moon |
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| The first probe to send back data from Venus |
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| The first American space station |
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| The first manmade satellite |
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| the first geostationary satellite |
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| First to send back weather pictures |
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| It was the rocket first developed by Germany |
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| The first probe to visit all four gas giants |
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| the first to build a liquid fuel rocket |
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| The first American to orbit the earth |
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| the first man to orbit the earth |
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| The first American to walk in space |
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| the first man to walk on the moon |
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| Why did the Chinese invent rockets? |
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| What was obtained during the International Geophysical Year? |
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| Is the Hubble Space telescope a probe? |
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| What type of satellite is a GPS? |
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| What are probes used for? |
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| to investigate space and other planets |
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| What was the ranger project? |
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| investigated the moon for a possible landing site |
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| Did Giotto strike the Halley's comet's nucleus? |
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| What were the first manned America space flights called? |
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| Did the Apollo's comman module ever land on the moon? |
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| No, it was the only part of the shuttle to return to earth |
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| Have the Soviets ever landed a man on the moon? |
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| What was the name of the first space station? |
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