Table of Contents
- 1 When did a team of American astronauts first meet and connect with a spacecraft in orbit?
- 2 What probes flew past Jupiter and other planets before heading outward toward deep space?
- 3 Is Voyager 1 past the Oort Cloud?
- 4 What type of telescopes are useful under most weather conditions and at all times of night and day?
- 5 Who were the first 3 astronauts in space?
- 6 When did the first team of astronauts meet?
- 7 What was the goal of the Apollo 11 mission?
When did a team of American astronauts first meet and connect with a spacecraft in orbit?
In March 1965, astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young became the first Gemini crew to fly. This picture of the Gemini 7 spacecraft was taken by the Gemini 6 crew in orbit. This article is part of the NASA Knows! (Grades 5-8) series.
What probes flew past Jupiter and other planets before heading outward toward deep space?
Voyager 1. Voyager 1 successfully flew by both the Jupiter and Saturn systems before continuing out into the farthest most reaches of our solar system. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study all four of the solar system’s giant planets at close range.
What is a motor that burns fuel without air?
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| Term people explore space with what three things? | Definition visible light, radio waves, rockets |
|---|---|
| Term what is a motor that burns fuel without air? | Definition rocet |
| Term in what does light pass through a double convex lens and is bent to form an image on the focal plane? | Definition refracting telescope |
When did America first go to space?
May 5, 1961
The Soviets won the race in April 1961 when cosmonaut Yuri A. Gagarin completed a single orbit around the Earth aboard his Vostok capsule. On May 5, 1961, Alan B. Shepard became the first American in space during a suborbital flight aboard his Mercury capsule named Freedom 7.
Is Voyager 1 past the Oort Cloud?
Future exploration Space probes have yet to reach the area of the Oort cloud. Voyager 1, the fastest and farthest of the interplanetary space probes currently leaving the Solar System, will reach the Oort cloud in about 300 years and would take about 30,000 years to pass through it.
What type of telescopes are useful under most weather conditions and at all times of night and day?
Chapter 21 – Exploring Space
| A | B |
|---|---|
| ___ telescopes are useful under most weather condidtions and at all times of night and day. | Radio |
| The first astronomer to use a telescope to look into the sky was ___. | Galileo |
| This great scientist invented the reflecting telescope. | Newton |
How long did Gemini 7 stay in orbit?
Gemini 7
| SATCAT no. | 1812 |
| Mission duration | 13 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes, 1 second |
| Distance travelled | 9,030,000 kilometers (4,876,000 nautical miles) |
| Orbits completed | 206 |
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How long would the flight to the moon take?
about 3 days
It takes about 3 days for a spacecraft to reach the Moon. During that time a spacecraft travels at least 240,000 miles (386,400 kilometers) which is the distance between Earth and the Moon. The specific distance depends on the specific path chosen.
Who were the first 3 astronauts in space?
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| Number | Name | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuri Gagarin | 12 April 1961 |
| 2 | Alan Shepard ▲ | 5 May 1961 |
| 3 | Virgil Grissom | 21 July 1961 |
| 4 | Gherman Titov | 6 August 1961 |
When did the first team of astronauts meet?
The year that a team of American astronauts first met and connected with a spacecraft orbit was 1996, before the first people stepped on the moon. The answer above is wrong. What is The Next Team of Power Rangers Called?
Who was the first American to go to space?
On May 25, 1961, six weeks after Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly into space and just 20 days after Alan Shepard became the first American to do so, President Kennedy declared a national goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth by the end of the decade.
Which is the first mission to land on the Moon?
Though the American mission would be first to land people on the Moon, the Soviet mission might have been first to bring lunar samples back to Earth. But Luna 15 remained in lunar orbit for four days while its controllers checked the onboard systems and performed two orbital maneuvers.
What was the goal of the Apollo 11 mission?
Credit: NASA The goal of Apollo 11 was, as John F. Kennedy had pronounced less than a decade earlier, to land astronauts on the Moon and return them safely to Earth. The mission conducted the first crewed landing on the Moon, deployed instruments, took photographs, collected samples and returned the crew safely back home.