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73 Cards in this Set

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first man inspace
Gagarin
first man to orbit earth
Gagarin
russian term for astronaut
cosmonaut
first American in space
Alan Shepard
landed on moon during Apollo program
Alan Shepard
first American to orbit earth
John Glenn
current US Senator
John Glenn
oldest person to fly in space
John Glenn
began NASA
President Eisenhower
commander of Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong
first man to step on moon
Armstrong
said One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
Armstrong
2nd man on moon
Buzz Aldrin
the eagle has landed means
lunar orbiter set doen on moon...code words
2nd American in space
Gus Grissom
first American Killed in space program
Gus Grissom
his mercury capsule sank but he escaped
GusGrissom
Refracting telescope advantage
1)cheaper, 2)easier to find objects,3)uniterrupted light field
refracting telescope disadvantages
1)lens size limited s objects arent seen well, 2)objects are inverted, 3)Lenses damaged easily
CONVEX mirrors
refracting telescope
curved concaved mirrors
reflecting telescope
used to magnify dim or dark objects
reflecting telescope
center of lens is thin ; outer edges of lens is thicker.....what type of lens
concave
telescope that sees in radio waves instead of light waves
radio telescope
orbiting x-ray telescope
chandra
orbiting telescope that takes pics in infrred and ultraviolet light
Hubble
is hubble functioning
needs repair batteries replaced
difference between probe and satellite
satellite orbits, probe goes on one way trip
mariner 10 visited what planet
mercury
what year did mariner 10 visit mercury
1974
what other probe visited Mercury
Messenger
probe landed on Venus then destroyed
Soviet's Venera
probe mapped surface of venus by radar
Magellan
when will Pluto be visited by probe
2015
what probe will visit Pluto
New Horizons
probe that visited Uranus
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
probe that visitied Neptune
Voyager 1 andVoyager 2
probe that landed on Titan, a moon of Saturn
Cassini
probe that crashed into Jupiter on fact finding mission
Gallileo
probes currently in deep space
Voyager 1 and Voyager 2
first man made satellite
Sputnik
5 satellite functions
1)comunication 2)GPS 3)military 4)weather 5)science
two countries in space race
US and USSR (Russis /Soviet Union)
mercury had how many astronauts
7
first Manned space program
Mercury
how many Mercury missions
7
mercury had how many crew members
room for oneman
purposeof mercury mission
see if man could survive and operate in space
sub-orbital man missioned flights
Mercury
manned mission flight held two astronaughts
Gemini
manned mission to practice walking in space plus maneuver and dock space craft
purpose of Gemini mission
manned misson held three astronauts
Apolo missions
how many men land on lunar surface
two of the three astronauts
how first space fatality happened
fire on launch pad - apollo 1
who died on Apollo 1
Gus Grissom
first space landing
July 20, 1969
last Apollo flight
Apollo 13
Apollo ended why
Vietnam war, civil rights
satellite stays in one spot above the earth
geosynchronous orbit
satellite moves north to south
polar orbit
satellite moves east to west or west to east
regular orbit
permanait orbital platform in space where people work and live
space station
country first devoting time to space station
USSR
name of first small space stations
Salyut
US first spacestation
Skylab
how long did skylab last
6 yrs
most successful space station
MIR
space stationthat crashed in Australia
MIR
what year did MIR crash
2001
current space station
INternational space station
Is international Space Station functioning?
already obsolete
Space shuttle accidents
challenger and Columbia
purpose of space shuttle
carry loads into space, repair satellites like Hubble, shuttle people to ISS