KIDS QUIZ
SPACE EXPLORATION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The ISS was built by many countries
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The ISS travels to other planets
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The ISS can land and be relaunched
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The ISS orbits around Earth
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Detailed explanation-1: -A space station is a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew in orbit for an extended period of time and is therefore a type of space habitat. It lacks major propulsion or landing systems. An orbital station or an orbital space station is an artificial satellite (i.e., a type of orbital spaceflight).
Detailed explanation-2: -The ISS consists of pressurised habitation modules, structural trusses, photovoltaic solar arrays, thermal radiators, docking ports, experiment bays and robotic arms. Major ISS modules have been launched by Russian Proton and Soyuz rockets and US Space Shuttles.
Detailed explanation-3: -Spaceplane operates as aircraft in Earrh’s atmosphere and as spacecraft in space.It is a hybrid of a plane and a rocket capable of atmospheric flight with wings and spaceflight with reaction engines. Space shuttle is a lifting body needing additional rocket engines for thrust. It is a low Earth ORBITAL spacecraft.