Mars 5 Questions Flashcards
MMX Question is split into 2.
What helped bring in the capital to fund SpaceX?
Zip2 and X.com (bank), with the latter merging with Confinity to create PayPal.
To make space travel more affordable and accessible SpaceX is developing…
reusable rockets, such as the successful Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
Were they American and when did they achieve this?
First Male Astronaut…
First Female Astronaut…
Male: Yuri Gagarin ( Soviet NOT USA - 1961 )
Female: Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova ( Soviet NOT USA - 1963 )
The MOXIE device converts… which can be used as…
carbon dioxide to oxygen… fuel and for breathing
Perseverance samples from Mars will be sent back to Earth in the year of…
2033 (or early to mid-2030s)
Terraforming means…
transforming a planet so that it is similar to Earth and is capable of supporting human life.
The Mars flag consists of… which each represents…
red, green, and blue, with red representing the current desert state, green representing the middle phase of a green-vegetated Mars, and blue representing the final fully terraformed state of Mars, similar to Earth.
Spacecrafts associated with said companies:
New Glenn -
CST-100 Starliner -
Starship -
The Gateway -
SLS Space Launch System -
Blue Origin
Boeing
SpaceX
NASA
NASA
Virgin Galactic was founded by…
Richard Branson and Burt Rutan, and their goal is to create a space travel business that transports everyday people beyond the Earth’s atmosphere.
The MMX is short for…
Martian Moons eXploration.
What is the MMX mission?
It is a robotic space probe that is set to go to and study the two Martian Moons, Phobos and Deimos, run by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. It is set for launch in 2026 to bring back the first samples from Mars’ largest moon Phobos.
