Unit 4 Vocab Flashcards
first man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
increased the range of rockets
Roger Bacon
designed rockets for military use
William Congreve
improved the accuracy of rockets by launching them through tubes
Jean Froissart
a Russian; the first man in space and the first man to orbit the earth
Yuri Gargarian
first American to orbit the Earth
John Glenn
experimented with solid and liquid propellant rockets; is called the “Father of Modern Rocketry”
Robert Goddard
Developed the technique of spin stablization
William Hale
ancient inventor who developed a device that would demonstrate rocket propulsion
Hero
the leading Soviet rocket scientist; known as the “Father of the Soviet Space Program”
Sergei Korolev
laid scientific foundation for modern rocketry with his laws of motion
Sir Issac Newton
space pioneer; wrote a book about rocket travel into outer space
Hermann Oberth
first American in space
Alan Shepard
first US space station
Skylab
a reusable space transportation system developed for traveling to space and back to Earth
Space Shuttle
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
Spin Stablization
first artificial satellite; Russian
Sputnik 1
proposed the use of rockets for space exploration and became known as the “Father of Modern Astronautics”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
director of the V-2 rocket project and architect of the Saturn family of rockets
Wernher von Braun
the rate of change in velocity with respect to time
acceleration
provides the shape of the rocket, within which all of the other systems are contained
airframe
steers the rocket and keeps it stable
control system
a new “family” of rockets being developed by Space Exploration Technologies, Inc. (Space X)
Falcon
determines the path the rocket should take; the the brain of the rocket
guidance system
