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Human Spaceflight
#1 The United States federal agency in charge of spaceflight What is NASA?
#2 The space station that has been built by many nations What is the International Space Station?
#3 The reusable spacecraft that have been launched into Earth's orbit since 1981 What is the space shuttle?
#4 The first astronaut on the moon Who is Neil Armstrong?
#5 The U.S. space program that landed astronauts on the moon What is Apollo?
Earth in Space
#1 The spinning of Earth around its axis What is rotation?
#2 Earth does this almost exactly once around the Sun each year What is revolve?
#3 The force that pulls Earth into orbit around the Sun What is gravity?
#4 The shape of Earth's orbit? What is ellipse/oval?
#5 It occurs when the Moon passes through Earth's shadow during a full moon What is a lunar eclipse?
The Moon
#1 The phases when we see the whole lighted side of the Moon What is full?
#2 A round pit formed by the impact of an object What is a crater?
#3 How long it takes the Moon to revolve around Earth What is 27.3 days?
#4 The phase in which half the lighted side of the moon is visible What is a quarter?
#5 The decreasing of the visible amount of the Moon's lighted surface after full moon What is waning?
The Universe 1
#1 Most of these rocky bodies are located in a belt between Mars and Jupiter What are asteroids?
#2 The part of a meteor that doesn't burn up in the atmosphere and strikes Earth's surface What is a meteorite?
#3 An Italian astronomer who discovered Jupiter's four largest moons Who is Galileo?
#4 The combining of nuclei that gives the Sun its energy What is nuclear fusion?
#5 The top layer of the Sun's atmosphere What is the corona?
The Universe 2
#1 A tool used to separate starlight into its colors What is a spectroscope?
#2 A cloud of gas an ddust in which a star forms What is a nebula?
#3 The actual brightness of a star What is absolute magnitude?
#4 The galaxy to which our solar system belongs What is Milky Way?
#5 The theory that says the universe began from a small area in space and has been expanding ever since What is the Big Bang Theory?
Final Question
The apparent change in wavelength of radiation that lets astronomers know that all stellar bodies are currently moving away from Earth What is red shift?