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Uncommon card · Science
Astronautics, an Uncommon card
Astronautics is the practice of sending spacecraft beyond Earth's atmosphere into outer space.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 51
- DEF
- 22
- Power
- 73
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 31,000
Power 73 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.
Astronautics quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Astronautics card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The term astronautics was ______ in the 1920s by J.-H.
Answer
coined. The term astronautics was coined in the 1920s by J.-H. From the Astronautics article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Miniature Fox Terrier. Miniature Fox Terrier 55 · Astronautics 51 · Naina Yeltsina 46 · Brightness 43 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Spaceflight is one of its main applications and space science is its overarching field.
- The term astronautics was coined in the 1920s by J.-H.
- Rosny, president of the Goncourt academy, in analogy with aeronautics.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Astronautics article was read about 31,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 51 and blocks with 22: each hit it takes is cut by 9 %.
How to get Astronautics
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Astronautics (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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