Rocket Development Flashcards
When did Archytas develop the flying wooden pigeon?
400 BCE
When did Hero develop the Hero engine?
100 BCE
When did the Chinese develop fireworks for religious celebrations?
The first century CE
When did the Chinese use rockets in war against the Mongols?
1232 CE
Who improved gunpowder, increasing range?
Roger Bacon
Who launched rockets through tubes to increase accuracy?
Jean Froissart
When did Sir Isaac Newton develop his laws of motion?
Late 17th century
The national anthem was based off of what kind of rocket?
Congreve rockets
Who developed spin stabilization
William Hale
Father of modern aeronautics
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Tsiokovsky proposed the idea of space travel by rocket when?
1898
When did Tsiolkovsky propose liquid fuel for rockets would increase range?
1903
Father of modern rocketry
Dr. Robert H. Goddard
(Blank) experimented with solid fuel rockets, then later liquid fuel, developing the fore-runner of modern rockets. (Blank) also developed a gyroscope system, a payload compartment, and recovery system.
Dr. Robert H. Goddard
Who published a book about rocket travel into outer space, inspiring small rocket societies around the world?
Hermann Oberth
When did Hermann Oberth publish his book about space travel that inspired small rocket societies around the world?
1923
Who developed the V-2 rocket?
Wernher von Braun
Father of the Soviet space program
Sergei Korolev
When did Sergei Korloev develop the first successful intercontinental Soviet missile?
August 1957
Sputnik launch date
October 4, 1957
Worlds first artificial satellite
Sputnik 1
First US satellite, Explorer 1, launch date
January 31, 1958
Explorer 1 discovered __________
The Van Allen radiation belts
When was NASA founded?
July 29, 1958
First person to orbit earth (name and date)
Yuri Gagarin, April 1962
First American in space (Name, date, rocket)
Alan Shepherd, May 1961, mercury capsule Freedom 7
How long did Alan Shepherd’s flight last and what altitude did he reach?
15 min, 116 miles (187 kilometers)
When did John Kennedy announce the objective of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade?
May 25, 1961
First American to orbit earth (name, date, rocket)
John Glenn, February 1962, Mercury capsule Friendship 7
When did the Apollo program start?
1968
When was Apollo 17?
1972
When did the Apollo missions end?
1975
What did Gemini do that paved the way for the Apollo missions? (Three things)
Rendezvous and docking procedures, extended duration (14 day) missions
When was the moon landing?
July 20, 1969
First man to walk on the moon (name, date, mission)
Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969, Apollo 11
First US space station (name, date)
Skylab, May 1973
