This artist rendering launched by NASA exhibits NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft barreling via space. The space company introduced Thursday, Sept. 12, 2013 that Voyager 1 has turn into the primary spacecraft to enter interstellar space, or the space between stars, greater than three a long time after launching from Earth.
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Questions:
1. Name the automobile that final month carried Italian Air Force-funded passengers on a personal firm’s first business suborbital flight mission to the sting of space and again.
2. This firm was based by a billionaire and earlier this 12 months was chosen by NASA to develop a lunar lander for a manned mission to the moon. What is the identify of this firm?
3. Five spacecraft have achieved sufficient velocity to finally journey past the boundaries of our photo voltaic system. Two of them are Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched in 1977. The ___ ________ spacecraft, launched by NASA in 2006, is presently exploring an icy area past Neptune referred to as the Kuiper Belt earlier than it travels into interstellar space. Fill within the clean.
4. The Voyager spacecraft, and the extra up to date one launched in 2006, characteristic an influence supply to propel them that is called a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. What is the particular radioisotope utilized in these RTGs?
5. In 2019, India’s Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission efficiently blasted off into space from the Sriharikota spaceport. An important ingredient of this mission, which sadly failed, was learning the lunar floor after touching down on the moon with a lander. What was the identify of this lander?
Visual: In 1949, the ______ turned the primary human-made object to enter space after it was blasted into the skies by a rocket that consisted of a missile sitting atop a German-made V2 rocket. Fill within the clean. NASA
Answers:
1. VSS Unity
2. Blue Origins
3. New Horizons
4. Plutonium-238
5. Vikram
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