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Space Exploration Space Firsts Vocabulary TELESCOPES Random 1 pt 1 pt 1 pt 1 pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt Sputnik I. What is the first artificial satellite in space? The space tool which has a specific task. Examples are weather and communications. What is a satellite? Artificial satellite The reason NASA was formed. What is the launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite in space, by the Russians? The way that technology developed by NASA has benefited society. What is it has helped people by making things more convenient and developed things which help to save lives? The country that put the first man into space. What is Russia? Neil Armstrong. What is the first man on the moon? Yuri Gagarin. What is the first man in space? John Glenn. What is the first American in space? Sputnik I. What is the first artificial satellite in space? July 20, 1969. What is the day man first walked on the moon? Machine that uses escaping gas to move. What is a rocket? Unmanned space vehicles that travel into deep space. What are probes? The medical innovation that allows doctors to see the soft tissues of the body to diagnose problems. What is MRI? The force that propels a rocket. What is thrust? Man made body that orbits another body in space. What is an artificial satellite? Visible and invisible forms of energy compose this. What is the electromagnetic spectrum? The type of telescope associated with the Hubble telescope. What is a reflecting telescope? The reason non-optical telescopes are placed in space outside the earth’s atmosphere. What is the earth’s atmosphere blocks these types of waves? Telescopes that are in orbit outside the earth’s atmosphere are said to be based here. What is space-based? . The type of telescope that uses lenses. What is a refracting telescope? The type of telescope that uses mirrors to concentrate visible light. What is a reflecting telescope? The type of telescopes that collect and concentrate visible and non-visible light. What is a non-optical telescope? The reason some optical telescopes are in space. What is to avoid interference from Earth? The type of telescope which MUST be placed in orbit outside of Earth’s atmosphere to collect non-visible light. What is a non-optical telescope (such as: gamma, radio, x-ray, or infrared)? Robert Goddard and Von Braun What is… Robert Goddard, Father of Modern Rocketry Von Braun German scientist worked in the Space program after coming to the U.S.?