The Questions:

1. What is the second planet from the Sun?
   
   
   

2. Which Italian astronomer used the first telescope to study the stars? (first or last name)
   
   
   

3. Which planet did the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet collide with?
   
   
   

4. In January 1986, what shuttle explosion led to a reevalutation of America's space program? (name of shuttle)
   
   
   

5. What is the Japanese Experiment Module of the ISS called?
   
   
   

6. What asteriod did the NEAR spacecraft succesfully land on?