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2. A special motor that can work in space and burns a solid and / or liquid fuel

3. What is a rocket?

4. Provides a safe and protected environment for an astronaut

5. What is a spacesuit?

6. System of planets and numerous other space objects that orbit the sun, all held in place by the sun’s gravity

7. What is the solar system?

8. The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.

9. What is a spiral galaxy?

10. The name of space agency that Congress and President started in 1958.

11. What is NASA?

12. The movement of one object around another object

13. What is a revolution?

14. A curved path followed by a satellite as it revolves around another object

15. What is an orbit?

16. The spinning of the Earth on its axis.

17. What is a rotation?

18. This force keeps objects orbiting a planet from flying off into space.

19. What is gravity?

20. The direction that earth rotates.

21. What is counterclockwise?

22. The order of the inner planets in order from the Sun out.

23. What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars

24. The order of the outer planets from the asteroid belt going out

25. What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

26. This is the new description for Pluto

27. What is a dwarf planet?

28. The number of earth’s that could fit in the sun

29. What is a million?

30. The reason that Mars looks red.

31. What is Mars has rust like sand?

32. These are sometimes referred to as “shooting stars”

33. What are meteors?

34. These objects strike the earth and create craters

35. What is a meteorite?

36. These objects are made up of frozen water, dust, rocky materials, and various gases.

37. What are comets?

38. This is a meteoroid that burns up while entering earth’s atmosphere.

39. What is a meteor?

40. These objects are only visible when they are close to the sun.

41. What is a comet?

42. A reusable spacecraft that was designed to construct the International Space Station

43. What is the space shuttle?

44. The only location that the International Space Station can be repaired.

45. What is in space?

46. This is the type of fuel that the Space Shuttle uses.

47. What are liquid and solid fuel propellants ?

48. This is the answer to whether space probes can return to earth or not.

49. What is “no”?

50. The number of tons of fuel that it takes to launch the Space Shuttle.

51. What is 100 tons?