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The Investigation of Physical conditions in Space and on stars,planets through satellites,space probes or space craft with human crews | Space Exploration |
A spacecraft that gets power from an engine full of chemical propellants | Rocket |
A vehicle or device designed for travel or operation outside Earth's atmosphere. | Spacecraft |
A reusable spacecraft designed t transport people and cargo between Earth and Space | space shuttle |
An unmanned spacecraft designed to explore the solar system and transmit data back to Earth | Space Probe |
A vehicle for exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial body-Example - Moon OR Mars | Rover |
Something that orbits around another object, for example a moon orbiting a planet or a human-made object orbiting Earth | Satellite |
An optical instrument for viewing distant objects. | Telescope |
A building or place given over to or equipped for observation of natural phenomena | Observatory |
An orbiting Space satellite, construction of which began in 2001 with the co-operation of 16 nations, used for scientific and space research. | International Space station |
The Father of modern science,made imrovements to the telescope and discovered four largest moons. | Galileo Galilei |
Scientists who travel into space | Astronauts |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the American Government Agency | N.A.S.A |
Device that collects Light from and magnifies images of distant objects | Telescope |
A spacecraft used to transport people and equipment to and from the space station | Shuttle |
An unmanned spacecraft that is used to collect information about distant objects in space | Probe |
An Object launched into orbit that is designed to send and receive information | Satellite |
The Apollo 11 Space craft also carried this which delivered the astronauts to the Moon | Lunar Lander |
He was the first human to journey into space | Yuri Gagarin |
The first person to land on Moon on July 20,1969 | Neil Armstrong |