Quiz 2 Flashcards
1
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- American Engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor
- Credited with creating and building the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket
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Dr. Robert Goddard
2
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- The three basic laws of classical mechanics that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it
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Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion
3
Q
- 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.
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Redstone Rocket (IRBM)
4
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- 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.
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Dr. Werner Von Braun
5
Q
- A family of US missiles and space launch vehicles
- An ICBM program initiated in the late 1950s under the Convair Division of General Dynamics
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Atlas Rockets
6
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- 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
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Chuck Yeager
7
Q
- 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
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Sputnik 1
8
Q
- A hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft
- Operated by the USAF and NASA as part of the X-plane series of experimental aircraft
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X-15A
9
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- 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
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Saturn Rockets
10
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- 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
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Ham the Astrochimp
11
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- First spacecraft to carry a human, Yuri A. Gagarin, into space, occurring 25 days prior to the first U.S. suborbital flight
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Vostok 1 Rocket
12
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- A Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space
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Yuri Gagarin
13
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- 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
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Mercury Space Program
14
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- American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman
- Became the second person and first American in space
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Alan Shepard
15
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- Government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952
- Second Administrator of NASA from 14 February 1961 to 7 October 1968
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James Webb
