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