Unit 4 Vocab

Question 1

first man to walk on the moon

Answer 1

Neil Armstrong

Question 2

increased the range of rockets

Answer 2

Roger Bacon

Question 3

designed rockets for military use

Answer 3

William Congreve

Question 4

improved the accuracy of rockets by launching them through tubes

Answer 4

Jean Froissart

Question 5

a Russian; the first man in space and the first man to orbit the earth

Answer 5

Yuri Gargarian

Question 6

first American to orbit the Earth

Answer 6

John Glenn

Question 7

experimented with solid and liquid propellant rockets; is called the “Father of Modern Rocketry”

Answer 7

Robert Goddard

Question 8

Developed the technique of spin stablization

Answer 8

William Hale

Question 9

ancient inventor who developed a device that would demonstrate rocket propulsion

Answer 9

Hero

Question 10

the leading Soviet rocket scientist; known as the “Father of the Soviet Space Program”

Answer 10

Sergei Korolev

Question 11

laid scientific foundation for modern rocketry with his laws of motion

Answer 11

Sir Issac Newton

Question 12

space pioneer; wrote a book about rocket travel into outer space

Answer 12

Hermann Oberth

Question 13

first American in space

Answer 13

Alan Shepard

Question 14

first US space station

Answer 14

Skylab

Question 15

a reusable space transportation system developed for traveling to space and back to Earth

Answer 15

Space Shuttle

Question 16

a technique developed by Englishman, William Hale, wherein escaping gases in a rocket hit small vanes that made the rocket spin, and stablize, much like a bullet in flight

Answer 16

Spin Stablization

Question 17

first artificial satellite; Russian

Answer 17

Sputnik 1

Question 18

proposed the use of rockets for space exploration and became known as the “Father of Modern Astronautics”

Answer 18

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Question 19

director of the V-2 rocket project and architect of the Saturn family of rockets

Answer 19

Wernher von Braun

Question 20

the rate of change in velocity with respect to time

Answer 20

acceleration

Question 21

provides the shape of the rocket, within which all of the other systems are contained

Answer 21

airframe

Question 22

steers the rocket and keeps it stable

Answer 22

control system

Question 23

a new “family” of rockets being developed by Space Exploration Technologies, Inc. (Space X)

Answer 23

Falcon

Question 24

determines the path the rocket should take; the the brain of the rocket

Answer 24

guidance system

Question 25

the tendency of an object at rest to stay at rest and an object in motiion to stay in motion

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inertia

Question 26

new rocket in developement by Blue Origin

Answer 26

New Glenn

Question 27

a body at rest remains at rest and a body in motion tends to stay in motion at a constant velocity unless acted on by an outside fore; inertia

Answer 27

Newton’s 1st Law of Motion

Question 28

the rate of change in the momentum of a body in proportional to the force acting upon the body and is in the direction of the force (also expressed as force equals mass times acceleration, or F=ma)

Answer 28

Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion

Question 29

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction

Answer 29

Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion

Question 30

what the rocket is carrying

Answer 30

Payload

Question 31

everything associated with producing the force needed to get the payload to its destination

Answer 31

propulsion

Question 32

to force or push; the amount of push used to get a rocket traveling upwards

Answer 32

thrust

Question 33

new rocket in development by United Launch Alliance

Answer 33

Vulcan

Question 34

aircraft with suborbital capability

Answer 34

Space Ship 1

Question 35

Space Ship One’s successor with the goal of offering the experience of space travel to the general public

Answer 35

Space Ship 2