| A | B |
|---|
| Geosynchronous Satellite | stay in orbit around one point over earth at all times |
| Communications Satellite | TV, Radio, telephone, etc |
| Weather Satellite | Prediction, Saves lives |
| Navigation Satellite | signals to ships, airplanes to pinpoint location |
| Scientific Satellite | solve old mysteries, make new discoveries |
| Skylab | US's 1st lab in space |
| Salyut | USSR's 1st lab in space |
| Spacelab | US's 2nd lab in space; carried by space shuttle |
| MIR | Russia's 2nd Lab in Space; most complex station of its time |
| International Space Station | 16 nations; most complex station |
| Space Probes | designed to study the planets/moons in solar system bc humans can't go there |
| Optical Telescopes | light gathering |
| Refracting Telescope | lenses; Galileo invented; solar system & nearby stars |
| Reflecting Telescope | mirrors; Newton invented; see father objects |
| Radio Telescope | curved dish gathers waves; "see" the farthest |
| Infrared Telescope | collects heat energy from stars |
| Ultraviolet Telescope | collects UV rays |
| X-ray Telescope | collects X-rays |
| Hubble Space Telescope | 1990; outside atmosphere in orbit |
| Ptolemy | Greek; Sun & Planets orbit Earth; circular orbits |
| Copernicus | Polish; Earth & planets orbit Sun; circular orbits |
| Kepler | German; found elliptical orbits of planets |
| Newton | English; laws of gravity |
| Jules Verne | wrote stories about the moon; society dreaming about moon |
| HG Wells | "War of the Worlds" |
| escape velocity | speed an object must go to escape planet's gravity |
| Newton's 3rd Law of Motion | for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction |
| Konstantine Tsiolkovskii | Russion; first to study rockets for use in space; reaction engine |
| Robert Goddard | US; Father of Modern Rocketry |
| WWII | increase in guided missiles & rockets |
| Krushchev | Russian leader; realized political importance of science & technology |
| Eisenhower | US President; didn't realize political importance of science & technology |
| Sputnik | 1st artificial satellite in space |
| Laika | 1st dog in space |
| Explorer I | 1st US Satellite in space |
| Luna | Russian; designed to impact moon; 1st pictures project of moon's far side |
| Lunar Orbiter/Ranger/Surveyor | US spacecraft to study moon & take pictures |
| Yuri Gagarin | 1st man in space; orbited once |
| NASA | National Aeronautics & Space Administration |
| Mercury Mission | 1 person; prepare to work in space |
| Alan Sheppard | 1st American in space |
| John Glenn | 1st American to orbit Earth; oldest person in space |
| Valentina Tereshkova | 1st woman in space |
| Promise by JFK | Put American on moon by end of the 1960's |
| Gemini Mission | 2 people; prepare to work in space |
| Ed White | 1st person to walk in space |
| Apollo Mission | designed to put man on the moon |
| Saturn V | 3 stage rocket; huge |
| Apollo 11 | 1st mission to land on moon |
| July 16, 1969 | Apollo 11 Launched |
| July 20, 1969 | Apollo 11 landed on moon |
| How many times have Americans set foot on the moon? | 6 times |
| last time Americans were on the moon | 1972 |
| Space Shuttle | reuseable; lifted by rockets; like an airplane |
| Columbia | 1st space shuttle; burnt up in Feb 2003 |
| Sally Ride | 1st US woman in space |
| Challenger | shuttle exploded in 1986 |
| Christa McAuliffe | teacher killed in explosion |
| Discovery/Atlantis/Endeavor/Enterprise | current space shuttles |
| Sunita Williams | Woman with longest stay in space |
