Quiz 2 Flashcards
- American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor
- Credited with creating and building the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket
Dr. Robert Goddard
- The three basic laws of classical mechanics that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it
Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion
- The first large American ballistic missile
- In active service with US Army in West Germany from June 1958- June 1964 as part of NATO’s Cold War defense of Western Europe.
Redstone Rocket (IRBM)
- German and American aerospace engineer and space architect.
- Was a member of the Nazi Party and Allgemeine SS
- Was the leading figure in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany and later a pioneer of rocket and space technology in the US.
Dr. Werner Von Braun
- A family of US missiles and space launch vehicles
- An ICBM program initiated in the late 1950s under the Convair Division of General Dynamics
Atlas Rockets
- A USAF officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot who became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight on October 1947
Chuck Yeager
- First artificial Earth Satellite
- Launched into elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet Space Program
Sputnik 1
- A hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft
- Operated by the USAF and NASA as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft
X-15A
- Developed by a team of mostly German rocket engineers and scientists led by Werner von Braun to launch heavy payloads to Earth orbit and beyond
- Used liquid hydrogen as fuel in the upper stages
- Most powerful rockets in history
Saturn Rockets
- The first great ape launched into space on 31 January 1961
- Flew suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2 mission, part of the U.S. Space Program’s Project Mercury
Ham the Astrochimp
- First spacecraft to carry a human, Yuri A. Gagarin, into space, occurring 25 days prior to the first U.S. suborbital flight
Vostok 1 Rocket
- A Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space
Yuri Gagarin
- The first human spaceflight highlight of the Space Race
- It’s goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union
Mercury Space Program
- American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman
- Became the second person and first American in space
Alan Shepard
- Government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952
- Second Administrator of NASA from 14 February 1961 to 7 October 1968
James Webb
- Aka Europe’s Spaceport
- European spaceport to the northwest of Kourou
- Located approximately 310 miles north of the equator, at a latitude of 5 degrees
Guiana Space Centre
- NASA’s second human spaceflight program
- Conducted between Projects Mercury and Apollo
- Carried a two-astronaut crew
- 10 crews and 16 individuals flew low Earth orbit missions during 1965 and 1966
Gemini Space Program
- Second group of NASA astronauts
The New Nine
An uncrewed spacecraft used by NASA during its Gemini program to develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques, and to perform large orbital changes, preparation for the Apollo program lunar missions
Agena Target Vehicle
- American expendable launch system
- Used to launch twelve Gemini missions for NASA between 1964 and 1966
Titan II GLV
Rhode Island
Rhode Island T. F. Green International (KPVD), 2 runways, ~2m passengers
Vermont
Burlington International (KBTV), 2 runways, ~600k passengers
North Carolina
Charlotte Douglas International (KCLT), 4 runways, ~43m passengers
New York
John F. Kennedy (KJFK), 4 runways, ~30m passengers
Virginia
Dulles International (KIAD), 4 runways, ~15m passengers
New Hampshire
Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (KMHT), 2 runways, ~700k passengers
Where did Robert Goddard get most of his funding for rocket research?
Charles Lindbergh
The the citizens of what State were the Federalist papers directed?
New York
What are the 4 main rocket systems?
Structural, Payload, Guidance, and Propulsion
Which Mercury astronaut flew the first orbital mission?
John Glenn
Which future position will Alexander Hamilton have with President Washington in 1789?
Department of Treasury
Why did the Saturn 1B rocket’s first stage have “slosh” baffles?
To ensure that the liquid in the rocket wouldn’t slosh, causing it to fall over
What were the two main mission objectives of the Gemini Program?
Long time in space and orbital rendezvous
